About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0856
  • TitleNot a pretty picture
  • SummaryTwo men in suits and hats conferring; brick wall in background. Caption: "Not a pretty picture: Charges that Brooklyn was littered with filth prompted fact-finding tour by Brooklyn Eagle columnist Robert M. Grannis and Sanitation Commissioner Andrew Mulrain. At left they are shown (with Mulrain on the right) at outset of tour. . . ."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: May 7, 1953; photographer's stamp.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCivic leaders -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Sanitation Department: After 1940