About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0520
  • TitleBeauty and light for Fulton St
  • SummaryStreet lights on tall pole being installed by truck derrick on right and two workmen standing on left; several commercial/office buildings and pedestrians in background, and trolley tracks on street in foreground. Caption: "Beauty and light for Fulton St.--This ornamental light post, erected today by the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity opposite Borough Hall [Downtown Brooklyn], is the first of 69 that will adorn the Black Spider-less thoroughfare between Myrtle Ave. and Rockwell Place."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso; date stamped: Jul[y] 31, 1941. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCommercial buildings ; Street lighting ; Trucks
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Downtown Brooklyn: Borough Hall Section