Anti-filth brigade

Anti-filth brigade
Enlarge Image

Why am I seeing a watermark?
Title: Anti-filth brigade
Description:

Crew of workmen with shovels and rakes cleaning beach; several trash receptacles. Caption: "Anti-filth brigade--Augmented squads of Park Department employes [sic] begin cleanup maneuver at Coney Island beach. ... More than 100 men were added to the regular maintenance staff to keep the beach in a sanitary condition."

Date: 1946
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks.
On verso; date stamped: Jul[y] 12, 1946.
Slightly damaged in upper right.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Beaches
Sanitation
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: CONE 0070