About This Item

  • Title[Manhattan Bridge during construction]
  • Call NumberBRID_0202
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0200, BRID 0201, BRID 0207), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views, in three different sizes, of the Manhattan Bridge during construction; 0200: sign on bridge: "The Terry & Tench Co. Inc.;" 0201: group of men and women wearing dress clothes posed at construction site; 0202 and 0207 show portion of East River and portion of Brooklyn waterfront in distant background.
  • Date1909
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso of 0200: date inscribed: May 17/09; date stamped: Dec. 14, 1909. Title from inscription on verso of 0200; partially supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.