Red Hook

Red Hook
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Title: Red Hook
Description:

Architectural rendering: Caption: "Red Hook--Groundbreaking ceremonies for five new Brooklyn elementary schools, including the addition to Public School 27 at Huntington and Hicks Sts., will be held soon in ... the borough. Just a block away from one of Brooklyn's largest housing projects, the $1,313,100 wing will accomodate 648 pupils;" two automobiles and two pedestrians in right foreground.

Date: 1951, published 1952.
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Red Hook (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks.
On recto: "P.S. 27, Brooklyn addition, board of Education, City of New York; John Ambrose Thompson, architect." printed at bottom of image.
On verso: dates stamped: Feb. 7, 1952 and Oct. 25, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Public School 27 (New York, N.Y.)
Elementary school buildings
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Architectural drawings.
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Renderings.
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 1289