About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0020
  • Title[Construction of Brooklyn Eagle Building in Boerum Hill]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (EAGL 0022, EAGL 0021), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views of early stage of construction of Brooklyn Eagle Building in Boerum Hill, showing erection of girders and beams; copies 1 (0020) and 2 (0021) with cobblestone street in foreground; copy 1 with men unloading supplies from truck ("Conver Steel & Wire Co.") in left foreground; copy 2 with pedestrians on sidewalk, some stopping to look through slat wooden fence at construction site; copy 3 (0022) tighter view, with seven or eight laborers amid girders and beams, and no street in foreground.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn versos: date stamped: Sep. 21, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn eagle ; Building ; Girders
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBoerum Hill (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder Eagle: Buildings: Demolition