About This Item

  • TitleMayor Walker opening new Manhattan Bridge roadway
  • Call NumberBRID_0222
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Mayor Walker (5) cuts a silken ribbon officially opening the new Manhattan Bridge roadway. With him are: (1) Democratic Leader John H. McCooey, (2) Plant and Structures Commissioner Albert Goldman, (3) Brooklyn Edison Company President Matthew S. Sloan, (4) Borough President Levy of Manhattan, (6) Borough President Hesterberg of Brooklyn, and (7) William Kennedy Jr., president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce." Many other people and portion of commercial building in background.
  • Date1931
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Numerals and inscription reversed. On recto: "Eagle photos" printed in black ink on right below Goldman and McCooey. On verso: date inscribed: June 18/31; "Eagle photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Daily Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectWalker, James John, 1881-1946 ; Rites and ceremonies -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.