About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0851
  • TitleHelping traffic
  • SummaryChute (right) funneling snow into bed of truck (left) on street in Park Slope; man in overcoat and hat observing action from sidewalk at right. Caption: "Helping traffic: Sno-go machine operated by Department of Sanitation employee at Garfield Place and 8th Ave. fills truck with remnants of the last storm which had been impeding traffic on such secondary borough arteries. . . ."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 27, 1947; "Eagle staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSnow removal -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (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: Sanitation Department: After 1940