About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_1048
  • TitleEarly gas workers
  • SummaryCaption: "Back in the last [19th] century, the 'gas house gang' was a feature of almost every city of any size. These early gas workers shared the partiality to beards and mustaches which was characteristic of the era." Image includes 26 men standing in a posed arrangement. The location is unknown and the image is not dated.
  • Date[188-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on rector below image.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Union Gas Company ; Gas companies -- Employees -- 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: Utlities: Brooklyn Union Gas Co.: History