About This Item

  • Call NumberTRAN_0635
  • TitleBorough jam
  • SummaryCaption: "Borough jam--Shipments held up by the slowdown of Railway Express Agency workers and the resulting embargo are piled up at depot on Sackett St. between 3d and 4th Avenue." Image includes portions of several trucks and collection of trunks, packages, and baskets.
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 10, 1949; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFreight and freightage -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trucks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Carroll Gardens (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: Railroads: Railway Express Company