About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0860
  • Title10 ton tractor and trailer, loaded with ashes below and rubbish above
  • SummaryDriver behind wheel of early model garbage truck, piled high with refuse; river or waterfront in background.
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 16, 1915.
  • SubjectRefuse collection vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- 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: Sanitation Department: Before 1940