About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0857
  • Title[Sanitation wagon with sign]
  • SummaryHorse-drawn sanitation wagon with sign reading, "You live in the greatest city in the world. Let's make it the cleanest and healthiest"; uniformed sanitation worker holding reins to horse (unseen) at left.
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 19, 1915; Eagle stamp. Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectRefuse collection vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Street cleaners -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- 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