About This Item

  • Call NumberBRID_0023
  • TitleManhattan-bound roadway
  • SummaryBrooklyn approach to the Brooklyn Bridge with five moving automobiles, policeman with back to camera, and sign, "To Manhattan; for passenger autos, horse drawn vehicles allowed except from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. weekdays; auto trucks and busses prohibited." Caption: "Today the entrance to the Manhattan-bound roadway looks like this, no whit wider than it was 50 years ago."
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Nov. 2/38. Retouched. Title from caption on verso. Triangular piece missing from upper right corner.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectAutomobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Brooklyn: Approaches: Brooklyn end: General