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Every little bit helps

Groundbreaking ceremony for courthouse at 283 Adams Street (subsequently rebuilt as a public high school). Caption: "Every Little Bit Helps: Work on the new Domestic Relations Court building was initiated yesterday afternoon, despite the inclement weather, by municipal and civic leaders at Johnson and Adams Sts. Left to right, with shovels, are John Warren Hill, presiding justice of Domestic Relations Court; Borough President John Cashmore; Edwin B. Wilson, executive editor of the Brooklyn Eagle; George C. Wildermuth, vice president of the Brooklyn Bar Association, and Commissioner Frederick H. Zurmuhlen of the Department of Public Works."

IMAGE DATE1952
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