About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0865
  • Title[Two men, horse, and sanitation wagon]
  • SummarySanitation worker unloading garbage can into wagon harnassed to draft horse; man in suit and white hat standing next to wagon at right. Caption on verso: "This automated wagon top, invented by Augustine F. FitzGerald of 671 Hancock Street, was tried successfully by the Street Cleaning Department this week. It is intended for the collection of ashes and garbage without spreading the dirt and dust. The picture shows the inventor and an employee of the Department operating the wagon top."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Sep. 4, 1912.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectSanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Refuse collection vehicles -- 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
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Sanitation Department: Before 1940