About This Item

  • Call NumberTRAN_0146
  • TitleDream lighting
  • SummaryCaption: "Dream lighting--Workmen are shown adjusting one of the 2,900 bronze lighting fixtures which will hold fluorescent tubes to provide a continuous line of light along each side of tunnel ceilings. Each fixture weighs 60 pounds and must be eased into position with a crane. Shown doing the job are Norman Stearns, 728 Carroll St.. and Harry Cohen, 839 Linden Boulevard."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 9, 1949. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLighting -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tunnels -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationHugh L. Carey Tunnel (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: Tunnels: Brooklyn-Battery: Construction: Interior: Employees