About This Item


  • Call NumberBRID_0117
  • TitleBrooklyn Bridge
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0092), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two similar etching views of the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn waterfront environs with portions of Lower Manhattan seen in distant background.. Caption on recto of 0092: "Some hailed the Brooklyn Bridge; some violently opposed it." Caption on verso of 0117: "Lower Fulton St. and Fulton Ferry as it appeared just before the completion of the bridge, with the Brooklyn Eagle office on the left and the bridge tower rising on the right." Both images include pedestrians and horse-drrawn vehicles.
  • Date[188-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genreetchings (prints)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso of 0117: April 24/33. Title from caption below image on recto of 0092.
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn Bridge (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: Bridges: Brooklyn: Renderings