About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0189
  • TitleGas for melting
  • SummaryCaption: "Gas for melting--These aluminum-melting furnaces, part of new Alumnicoating process at Arthur Tickle Engineering Works in Red Hook, are fired by natural gas from Brooklyn Union Gas Company."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso: "The Brooklyn Union Gas Co. Photographic Section; date taken: Dec. 1, 1954;" "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Union Gas Company
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAluminum industry and trade -- New York (State) -- New York ; Factories -- 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
  • 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: Factories: Engineering