About This Item

  • TitleMayor Walker opening Manhattan Bridge roadway
  • Call NumberBRID_0221
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view: caption: "Flanked by business, civic and political leaders, Mayor Walker crossed the new roadway of Manhattan Bridge. Here is the group as it arrived at the Brooklyn end of the structure just before the mayor cut the tape officially opening the roadway;" many spectators, portion of pylon on far left, and several commercial buildings in background.
  • Date1931
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: June 18/31; "Eagle photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Daily Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectRites and ceremonies -- New York (State) -- New York ; Spectators -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan 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.