About This Item


  • TitleRailway from foot of the tower
  • Call NumberWILC_0267
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WILC 0198), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two identical views of Brooklyn Bridge looking down onto streetcar tracks; cables in foreground radiating from unseen bridge tower; other tower and skyline of Manhattan or Brooklyn in background; one pedestrian on central walkway at right.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype images have numbers: 71b and 83a. Title from inscription below image of 0267.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • 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.