Fights housing crisis

Fights housing crisis
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Title: Fights housing crisis
Description:

Governor Thomas Dewey conferring with two other officials before military barracks. Caption: "Fights Housing Crisis: Governor Dewey inspecting U.S. Coast Guard Training Station at Manhattan Beach as a possible emergency housing site. The Governor, shown at left, is studying one of the station's barracks. With him are Capt. J. R. Baylis, commanding officer of the station, center, and State Housing Commissioner Herman T. Stichman."

Date: 1945
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Nov. 29, 1945; "Eagle Staff photo."
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Housing
Subject: Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
Municipal officials and employees
Veterans
Public housing
Barracks
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 0151