About This Item


  • TitleManhattan Bridge
  • Call NumberBRID_0227
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0236, BRID 0237, BRID 0225, BRID 0226, BRID 0228, BRID 0229, BRID 0235, BRID 0234, BRID 0232, BRID 0231, BRID 0230), some of which may also be described in this new record; Twelve views, in five different sizes, of traffic, including many trucks, of the Brooklyn approach to the Manhattan Bridge, with commercial and residential buildings in background. Ten images are aerial views and two are undated.
  • Date1946-1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description12 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0226: 8 x 7 in.; 0227: 8 x 4 in.; 0228: 7 x 10 in.; 0231: 10 x 8 in. Title from typed caption on verso of 0225.
  • SubjectAutomobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Bridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; City traffic -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trucks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.