About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0122
  • TitleCareful, Mister!
  • SummaryTwo men, one carrying chair and mattress, on steps at housing project bound by Bergen and Pacific Streets and by Ralph and Rochester Avenues. Caption on verso: "Careful, Mister!: It would have been just too bad to break a leg off that chair when it was being carried into the most up-to-date apartment it ever graced. Scene at Kingsborough Houses as 140 families moved in."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Aug. 18, 1941; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Moving, Household -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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: Kingsborough Houses