High living
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| Title: | High living |
| Description: | Aerial view of street in Fort Greene, with parapet of roof in left foreground from which photo was taken. Caption on verso: "High Living: From the upper floors of the 13-story units in the Fort Greene project one can gaze upon more unobstructed space than is available to the usual apartment house dweller. View above, looking west on Auburn Place, shows vine-covered Cumberland Hospital at right, and beyond, the peaks of the Court-Montague, Chamber of Commerce and other sky-scraper business buildings of downtown Brooklyn." |
| Date: | 1942 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.) |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Aug. 16, 1942. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Hospitals Public housing |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Aerial views. |
| 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 0080 |
