About This Item

  • TitleStart of big pipeline
  • Call NumberNEIG_1406
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCrane operator and crew lowering pipe into trench on street; crowd of onlookers (mostly boys) at right; residential buildings and church along street in background; sawhorse barriers and wooden stakes in foreground. Caption: "Start of big pipeline -- The first length of pipe in new 30-inch line being laid by Brooklyn Union Gas Company to carry natural gas into trench on Lorimer St. in Greenpoint. Twelve-mile line will be ready when first gas arrives from Texas next fall."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Nov. 27, 1949. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPipelines ; Pipe-laying machinery ; Sawhorses ; Construction workers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (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.