About This Item

  • Title[New York Connecting Railroad]
  • Call NumberBRID_0307
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0310, BRID 0306, BRID 0305, BRID 0309, BRID 0308, BRID 0312, BRID 0311), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eight views, in different sizes, of the New York Connecting Railroad, a rail line in Queens that links New York City with Long Island that was completed in 1916. 0305-0310, 0312 show line under construction. Printed caption in lower right corner of 0311: "Erection of Little Hell Gate Bridge [over the Hell Gate section of the East River]; view from Sunken Meadows, Nov. 1, 1915."
  • Date1914, 1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description8 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0307 and 0309 are identical. Dates stamped on verso: 0305: Jan. 4, 1914; 0307, 0309: May 23, 1914; 0308: Oct. 2, 1915; 0312: Jan. 13, 1915. Stamped on verso of 0308: "Brown Brothers;" 0312: "Eagle;" 0311: "B. Hellmich, General Photographer." Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectNew York Connecting Railroad (New York, N.Y.) ; Bridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads, Elevated -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationHell Gate Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.