Borough of Brooklyn Commissioner of Public Works report
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The 1903 annual report of the Commissioner of Public Works for the Borough of Brooklyn, William C. Redfield, including reports from the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Highways, Bureau of Sewers, Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices, Bureau of Encumberances and Permits, and the General Bookkeeper. The report is enclosed in a single hardbound volume, is typewritten, and includes some photographs.
Biographical note
William Cox Redfield was born in Albany, New York, on June 18, 1858, and was educated in public schools and at home. He moved to Massachusetts to work first at the Pittsfield post office and thereafter at a local paper company.
He then moved to New York and took up work at a stationery firm, later becoming involved with mining and manufacturing as well as banking and life insurance. Redfield served as Brooklyn's Commissioner of Public Works before winning a seat in Congress (1910) from the Republican Fifth District in New York.
After President William Howard Taft split the Department of Commerce and Labor on his last day in office, Wilson appointed Redfield the nation's first Secretary of Commerce. Redfield remained in the cabinet until 1919, at which time he moved back to New York to work in the fields of banking, investments, and insurance. During this period, he wrote The New Industrial Day about the "new scientific spirit in management." William Cox Redfield died in New York on June 13, 1932.
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- Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. "William C. Redfield." Accessed May 06, 2024. https://millercenter.org/president/wilson.
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The 1903 annual report of the Commissioner of Public Works for the Borough of Brooklyn, William C. Redfield, including reports from the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Highways, Bureau of Sewers, Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices, Bureau of Encumberances and Permits, and the General Bookkeeper. The report is enclosed in a single hardbound volume, is typewritten, and includes some photographs.
The photographs depict street views in Sunset Park, Bushwick, and Windsor Terrace.
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Preferred Citation
Borough of Brooklyn Commissioner of Public Works report, 1903; 1980.004, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of William C. Redfield, 1903.
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This collection was rehoused and the finding aid revised by Dee Bowers in 2024.
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