Guide to the Public Service Commission Photographs 1910-1947 Control # P-14
Identifier: aql:298
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.”
Title :
Guide to the Public Service Commission Photographs 1910-1947 Control # P-14; Public Service Commission Photographs, 1910-1947
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.”
Subject :
New York (State). Public Service Commission; Long Island Rail Road; City planning; Urban renewal; Public housing
Coverage :
Rockaway Beach (New York, N.Y.) Astoria (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Queens Borough Public Library, Publisher
Identifier :
aql:298
eadid :
P-14
Subject:
New York (State). Public Service Commission; Long Island Rail Road; City planning; Urban renewal; Public housing
New York (State). Public Service Commission; Long Island Rail Road; City planning; Urban renewal; Public housing
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