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This collection includes black and white and color photographic prints of construction sites in and around New York City. Notable projects represented in this collection include the American Bible Society headquarters, the CBS headquarters, the United Nations, Port Authority, and the Parking Garage next to the Brooklyn and Battery Tunnel and Washignton Street El, all in New York City; the Northwest Airlines Terminal at Idlewild Airport in Queens, N.Y; Highbridge House in Bronx, N.Y.; and the Gateway Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
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Brennan and Sloan concrete construction photographs. Located in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Source of acquisition--Gift of Gileen Brennan and Jack Brennan. Accession number--1996.019.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Photos Processed AvR 02/01/08.
Brennan and Sloan, Inc. was a concrete contracting company who worked on a variety of commercial and institutional projects in and around New York City. William R. Brennan founded the firm and his son, John Joseph Brennan, Sr., later became the principal.
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