About This Item

  • Call NumberPARK_0144
  • TitleLoudspeaker
  • SummaryCaption: "Loudspeaker--Prospect Park's latest innovation is this cone-shaped band shell which WPA constructed under Park Department sponsorship for Brooklyn's music lovers The amplifier was erected during the development of a two-and-a-half acre section of the western portion of the part between 10th and 11th Sts."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 13, 1941. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBandstands -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Park (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: Parks: Prospect Park: Bandshell