About This Item

  • TitleBrooklyn Bridge lore
  • Call NumberBRID_0030
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Brooklyn Bridge lore--The Brooklyn Bridge, having been 68 years old last Thursday, the anniversary stirred thoughts in the mind of Theodore Belzner, the bridge authority, to the time when Col. Washington A. Roebling, ...watched the span go up through the window shown here, a top floor, rear one at 106 Columbia Heights. ..." Image includes portions of the East River and Lower Manhattan.
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: May 27, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Small rectangular piece missing from lower right corner. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rivers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn 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.