[Workers clearing debris in front of court house building in Brooklyn Heights]

[Workers clearing debris in front of court house building in Brooklyn Heights]
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Title: [Workers clearing debris in front of court house building in Brooklyn Heights]
Description:

Three workers with shovels in small yard before brick building (no longer extant) with projecting entrance portal; sign on window behind workers reads, "F. H. La Guardia, Mayor / Dept. of Sanitation"; supporting girder of elevated subway tracks in foreground. Caption on verso: "Dilapidated Adams St. structure, now in hands of Sanitation Department, is being torn apart and put together wagain by WPA workers, who are uncovering relics of the famous old bastille as they work on."
Date: 1937
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On verso: date inscribed: May 5/37.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Government
Subject: Blue collar workers
Public buildings
Lost architecture
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: GOVT 0006