About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0848
  • TitleTin can roundup on the East River
  • SummaryFive garbage trucks at base of Brooklyn Bridge dumping refuse into waiting barge; one sanitation worker at right; portion of Manhattan skyline in background.
  • Date1942
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date inscribed: 4/22/42. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRefuse collection vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Barges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn Bridge (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: Sanitation Department: After 1940