About This Item

  • TitleModern magic from the engineer's drawing board
  • Call NumberBRID_0081
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Modern magic from the engineer's drawing board--Mayor Wagner, center, cuts the ribbon which ... opened the Brooklyn Bridge to service as a modernized, widened span with three lanes in either direction. Flanking the mayor at the Manhattan Plaza are, left to right, Charles A. Tyson and Ferdinand W. Roebling 3d, great-grandsons of John A. Roebling, designer of the bridge; Robert E. Blum, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Association; Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack, Council President Abe Stark; Borough Works Commissioner John J. Lynch; Public Works Commissioner Frederick H. Zurmuhlen, and Percival R. Moses, president of the Downtown Manhattan Association."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: May 4, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectWagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910-1991 ; Bridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- 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.