About This Item

  • TitleCortelyou Road electric bus service
  • Call NumberTRAN_0416
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (TRAN 0424), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of electric buses, also known as trolley buses, on Cortelyou Road. 0416: Bus is filled with passengers and has large sign between wheels: "This bus line has been made possible thru the efforts of Ocean parkway Civic League." 0424 includes several pedestrians on sidewalk.
  • Date1930, 1932
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "Eagle" printed near bottom of image. Title from inscription on verso of 0416.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectBuses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trolley buses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.