About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_1049
  • TitleGas company meter man
  • SummaryCaption: "One of the hardest-working employees of the gas company in its early years was the meter man, shown here with his burden of meters." The meters appear to have been superimposed on image. The image is not dated and the location is unknown.
  • Date[190-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on recto below image.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Union Gas Company ; Gas companies -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gas-meters -- 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: Utilities: Brooklyn Union Gas Co.: History