From steel mills to home for aged

From steel mills to home for aged
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Title: From steel mills to home for aged
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Caption: "From steel mills to home for aged--At signing of steel contract for new $1,500,000 Haym Salomon Home and Hospital for the Aged, under construction at Cropsey Avenue and Bay 34th Street, are, left to right, Claire Fox, executive director of the home; Louis Blumenstock, president; Harold M. Brown, attorney; Benjamin Wachs, building committee chairman; David Picket, president, Gotham Construction Company, the general contractor; Samuel Dreier, treasurer, Dreier Structural Steel Company; Louis Borenstein, chairman board of directors of the home, and Morton A. Shapiro, attorney for the Dreier company."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Canner, Irving.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 21, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Social Welfare
Subject: Haym Salomon Home for the Aged (New York, N.Y.)
Old age homes
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: SWEL 0471