Title: | Housing for vets |
Description: | Workers at construction site of renovated or nearly completed bungalow-like buildings intended as temporary housing for veterans in Manhattan Beach; shows one house (primarily), with two workers (one measuring board) before it; both images show icy ground and bare bushes in foreground. Caption on verso of HOUS 0150: "Housing for Vets: Workers are busy at Manhattan Beach Coast Guard Station, creating apartments for veterans and families in former bungalows and barracks. First apartments should be ready in February." |
Date: | 1946 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 29, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Building construction [5] Veterans [6] Public housing [7] Construction workers [8] |
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 0152 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/a0b9b47cb07d9d864ba63d5ce6a1531d&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Manhattan+Beach+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Building construction
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/v/Veterans
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Construction workers