Broiling bucket bridage
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| Title: | Broiling bucket bridage |
| Description: | Mothers and children with buckets, pots, and bottles standing on plaza; some children in bathing suits; line of leafy trees (probably Fort Greene Park) in background. Caption on verso: "Broiling Bucket Brigade: Carrying anything that will hold water, bucket brigades from Fort Greene Houses line up at the 'town pump' to get emergency rations of the precious liquid. Water pipes burst at project, leaving 700 families without running water for 14 hours, and so . . . " |
| Date: | 1953 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Geller, Jules. |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Sep. 3, 1953; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Mother and child Public housing |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
| ID: | HOUS 0081 |
