About This Item
- TitleBrooklyn Anchorage
- Call NumberBRID_0040
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0019), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption on recto below image of 0019: "Brooklyn Anchorage [with portion of bridge in left background] - October 1878. The photograph shows how the cables are fastened to the anchor bars leading to the anchor plates under the masonry. Henry C. Murphy, Pres.; Wm. Dempsey, Foreman of Riggers; W. Hildenbrand, Ch. Draftsman; John H. Prentice, Treas.; Wm. H. Paine, Ass't. Eng'r; E.F. Farrington, Master Carpenter; C.P. Quintard, Sec'y; Charles C. Martin, 1st. Ass't. Eng'r; Wm. Van Der Bosch, Draftsman; F. Collingwood, Ass't. Eng'r; Geo. W. McNulty, Ass't. Eng'r."
- Date1878
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteImages are identical. On verso of 0019, copy 2: "Original may be by G.W. Pach; very similar view by him in Museum of the City of New York Collection on same occasion, Oct., 1878." Title from caption on recto of 0019.
- SubjectAnchorage ; Bridges -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- Finding AidView the finding aid
- PlaceBrooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
- RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.