About This Item

  • Title[Airplane nose down in snow]
  • Call NumberEAGL_0255
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (EAGL 0254), some of which may also be described in this new record; Views of small airplane nose down in snowy field with eight or nine bystanders around it; 0254 has man climbing on wing and "top" inscribed on top right-center of print; 0255 has man standing on wing and bystanders in different positions. Inscription on verso of 0255: "Butler Warner's plane noses over into the snow at Floyd Bennett Field as it attempts to take off for Riverhead to take Eagle newspapers."
  • Date1934
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Feb. 22/34. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectFloyd Bennett Field (New York, N.Y.) ; Airplanes ; Aircraft accidents ; Newspapers -- Transportation
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.