About This Item


  • TitleWilliamsburg Bridge
  • Call NumberBRID_0199
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0203, BRID 0204, BRID 0357), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views, in different sizes, of the Williamsburg Bridge during construction, with portion of Brooklyn or Manhattan in background. Three images include views of Brooklyn or Manhattan waterfront, two include portions of New York Harbor, and 0204 has close-up of tugboat in foreground.
  • Date1901
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso of 0357: "Work began 1896; 1st cable strung 1901." Title from inscription on verso of 0357.
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tugboats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)Williamsburg Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.