About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0864
  • Title[De-icing street]
  • SummaryBack view of sanitation truck releasing lines of chemicals on snow-covered street; two men on either side of truck. Caption on verso: "A Brooklyn street coated with ice was reduced to a mass of slush yesterday morning when a private company showed city engineers its method of chemical snow removal. Above is the specially equipped truck as it sprayed calcium chloride on Livingston St. between Clinton St. and Sidney Pl."
  • Date1929
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: Dec. 6/29. "Eagle" inscribed on recto. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectSanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York ; Deicing chemicals ; Trucks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Sanitation Department: Before 1940