About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1315
  • Title[Traffic on Hamilton Avenue]
  • SummaryHeavy traffic on Hamilton Avenue beneath girders and elevated section of Brooklyn Queens Expressway; bare trees and pedestrian in foreground; gas station and other buildings in background. Caption: "It is to check traffic jams like this in Brooklyn (on Hamilton Ave.) that are repeated all over the nation daily and to reduce the shocking death toll from needless auto accidents that President Eisenhower launched his far-reaching proposal."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 25, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title supplied by cataloger. Second caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCommunication and traffic ; Automobiles ; Buses ; Trucks ; Elevated highways
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceGowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Gowanus: Hamilton Avenue