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Broad Channel Wind Damage

Collection: Illustrations Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Date: November 1 1932; 1932-11-01 Material: Black and white photograph Dimension: 6 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 400 ppi
Creator: Archives at Queens Library Identifier: aql:16468 ill-vf-aql-000016 ill-vf-aql-000016.tif

Description: A Broad Channel summer home floats in Jamaica Bay after being knocked off its foundations following a fierce wind storm on November 1, 1932. The storm knocked six homes off of their stilt foundations into Jamaica Bay. Several families were reported marooned in their floating homes.

Collection : aql:13844; aql:18032

Creator : Archives at Queens Library

Date : November 1 1932; 1932-11-01

Summary/Description : A Broad Channel summer home floats in Jamaica Bay after being knocked off its foundations following a fierce wind storm on November 1, 1932. The storm knocked six homes off of their stilt foundations into Jamaica Bay. Several families were reported marooned in their floating homes.

Subject : Wind damage; Dwellings

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Coverage : Broad Channel, Queens, NY Broad Channel (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Digital image

Format : Black and white photograph; 6 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 400 ppi

Identifier : aql:16468 ill-vf-aql-000016 ill-vf-aql-000016.tif

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Wind damage; Dwellings
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