About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0863
  • Title[Garbage cans on sidewalk]
  • SummaryFour labeled garbage cans ("fruit skins," "paper," etc.) on sidewalk before brick apartment building. Inscription on verso: "Types of cans now being installed by Street Cleaning Dept. 2,500 have been installed during past year."
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 19, 1915; Eagle stamp. Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectRefuse collection -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Sanitation Department: Before 1940