Homes to be torn down

Homes to be torn down
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Title: Homes to be torn down
Description:

Two small, three-story, wood-frame, shingled houses with large American flags on porches and six signs on steps, shubbery, driveway, and lawn. Inscription: "474 [with awning over front porch] and 470 East 8th St., part of 25 homes to be torn down to make room for new school [J.H.S. 62, Cortelyou Road and East 7th Street]."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 28, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Title from inscription on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Signs and signboards
Wooden-frame houses
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: SCHL 1193