About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0861
  • TitleThe covered cart
  • SummaryHorse and horse cart perpendicular to road, with uniformed driver holding reins; body of water with tugboat in right background. Inscription: "The covered cart. All carts are expected to be covered by Dec. 31, 1915."
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 19, 1915; Eagle stamp. Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectRefuse collection vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horse-drawn 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