About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0137
  • TitleDogpatch, or Brooklyn?
  • SummaryMother looking down at two daughters seated on stoop of dilapidated wooden house, built as temporary housing for veterans at Linden Boulevard and Vermont Street; overgrown yard in foregound. Caption on verso: "Dogpatch, or Brooklyn?: Mrs. Virginia Miranda, with daughters Denise, 2, and Alma, 5, poses at entrance of shanty dwelling in Linden Houses veterans' project. In this building, and in others even more dilapidated, scores of veterans' families are preparing to face another winter."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Nov. 28, 1952; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mother and child -- New York (State) -- New York ; Poor families -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (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: Housing: Linden Houses (Veterans' Project)