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• TitleMill Basin Bridge
• Call NumberBRID_0299
• Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
• SummaryAerial view of traffic on Mill Basin Bridge, a drawbridge on the Belt Parkway, over Mill Basin, connecting Bergen Beach with Floyd Bennett Field. Image includes portion of Jamaica Bay in distant background. Typed caption on verso: "Mill Basin Bridge: A movable, bascule bridge carrying Belt Parkway over Mill Basin, Brooklyn. Opened to traffic on June 29, 1940."
• Date[1940?]
• Formatstill image
• Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
• Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
• NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
• SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; City traffic -- New York (State) -- New York ; Express highways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parkways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Roads -- New York (State) -- New York
• CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
• Finding AidView the finding aid
• PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Jamaica Bay (N.Y.)Mill Basin (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.