About This Item


  • Call NumberMEMO_0147
  • TitleTodd Memorial Square
  • SummaryView of intersection in Red Hook, with factories, warehouses, apartment buildings, and storage shed in background; small, empty plaza formed by the intersection of three streets in foreground; streets deserted except for one man seated on bench in middle ground and three automobiles in far background. Caption on verso: "Todd Memorial Square will be dedicated Sunday a[ftern]oon, when William H. Todd 2d, grandson of the late William H. Todd, founder of the Todd Shipyards, raises flag on pole erected by members of Todd Memorial Post of the American Legion. The square is at Columbia, Hallock [i.e., Halleck] and Sigourney Sts., in the Red Hook section."
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: May 12/39; photographer's stamp: Tri-Boro Photos. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorTri-Boro Photos [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPlazas -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (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: Memorials: Todd Memorial Square