Public Service Commission Photographs

Date: 1910-1947; 1910 Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints Dimension: 25 glass plate negatives, 1 box, .5 cubic feet; 189 negatives, 3 boxes, 1 cubic foot; 1,831 prints, 5 boxes, HF, 2.5 cubic feet; 1,831 digital images, 400 ppi TIFF, Gb

Creator: Public Service Commission Identifier: aql:3877 P-14

Description: The Public Service Commission Photographs (1,831 photographs, 1910-1947) consist of photographs documenting the Commission’s work on the Astoria Houses, a public housing development, a number of roads in Queens, Long Island Rail Road and Robert Moses’ Rockaway Beach Improvement project. The photographs document the commissions work to eliminate railroad crossing, upgrade railroad tracks, widen and expand roads in Queens, and prepare for the government’s takeover of land in Astoria for public housing and the Rockaway Beach for “improvement.”; The photographs are located in the Archives at Queens Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11432, in boxes N121-N123, N150 (negatives and interpositives); P53 and HF (prints); the digital images are available online.; http://queenslibrary.org/research/archives

Title : Public Service Commission Photographs

Collection : aql:848

Creator : Public Service Commission

Date : 1910-1947; 1910

Summary/Description : The Public Service Commission Photographs (1,831 photographs, 1910-1947) consist of photographs documenting the Commission’s work on the Astoria Houses, a public housing development, a number of roads in Queens, Long Island Rail Road and Robert Moses’ Rockaway Beach Improvement project. The photographs document the commissions work to eliminate railroad crossing, upgrade railroad tracks, widen and expand roads in Queens, and prepare for the government’s takeover of land in Astoria for public housing and the Rockaway Beach for “improvement.”; The photographs are located in the Archives at Queens Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11432, in boxes N121-N123, N150 (negatives and interpositives); P53 and HF (prints); the digital images are available online.; http://queenslibrary.org/research/archives

Subject : Long Island Rail Road; City planning; Public housing; Urban renewal

Rights : Copyrighted: The City of New York

Coverage : The photographs are located in the Archives at Queens Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11432, in boxes N121-N123, N150 (negatives and interpositives); P53 and HF (prints); the digital images are available online. Astoria (New York, N.Y.) Rockaway Beach (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : collection; glass plate negatives; black and white negatives; interpositives; black and white prints; digital images

Format : unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints; 25 glass plate negatives, 1 box, .5 cubic feet; 189 negatives, 3 boxes, 1 cubic foot; 1,831 prints, 5 boxes, HF, 2.5 cubic feet; 1,831 digital images, 400 ppi TIFF, Gb

Identifier : aql:3877 P-14