About This Item

  • Call NumberTRAN_0147
  • TitleCable splicing
  • SummaryCaption: "Cable splicing--The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel will also be used to carry hundreds of telephone and electric cables under the East River. ... Shown here splicing a power line are Arthur Brodish, 2161 Atlantic Ave., left, and Pat Sullivan, 164 E. 82d St., Manhattan."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 9, 1949. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCables ; Tunnels -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationHugh L. Carey Tunnel (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: Tunnels: Brooklyn-Battery: Construction: Interior: Employees