About This Item
- TitleManhattan-bound roadway
- Call NumberBRID_0023
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryBrooklyn approach to the Brooklyn Bridge with five moving automobiles, policeman with back to camera, and sign, "To Manhattan; for passenger autos, horse drawn vehicles allowed except from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. weekdays; auto trucks and busses prohibited." Caption: "Today the entrance to the Manhattan-bound roadway looks like this, no whit wider than it was 50 years ago."
- Date1938
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Nov. 2/38. Retouched. Title from caption on verso. Triangular piece missing from upper right corner.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
- SubjectAutomobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- Finding AidView the finding aid
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.