About This Item


  • Call NumberEAGL_0249
  • TitleDelivery of papers on Johnson Street side
  • Summary[Advertisement for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle almanac?] Drawing depicts distribution of newspapers in front of Brooklyn Daily Eagle building in downtown Brooklyn; wagons with horses lined up at left; attendants holding horses by reins; one wagon with driver at right already moving; crowd scene in foreground includes policeman, workers, bystanders, and newsboy selling paper to dandy. Portions of incomplete text above image.
  • Date[189-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genreadvertisementsdrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on recto.
  • SubjectBrooklyn daily eagle ; Horse-drawn vehicles ; Newspaper buildings ; Newspapers -- Transportation
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Eagle: Delivery