About This Item

  • Call NumberBRID_0333
  • TitleVerrazano Narrows Bridge catwalks
  • SummaryCaption: "[Aerial view of] the sweep of the 20 foot wide catwalks built between the towers of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge by United States Steel's American Bridge Division is dramatized by the late-afternoon sun that also silhouettes a cargo vessel passing through the [New York Harbor] Narrows. American Bridge will start spinning the bridge's four main cables on Thursday, March 7;" section of Staten Island in distant background.
  • Date[1963]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cargo ships -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Bridges: Verrazano Narrows: Construction