About This Item


  • Title[Brooklyn Bridge opening momentos]
  • Call NumberBRID_0066
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0067, BRID 0068, BRID 0069), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four momentos, in different sizes, of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 including program cover of "Opening ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge," Society of Old Brooklynites invitation to, and memorandum from, Albert H. Osborn, and front of postcard addressed to Elisha Bailey at 75 Ralph Avenue.
  • Date1883
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsprinted ephemera
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn 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.