About This Item

  • Title[Grand Army Plaza, looking north]
  • Call NumberNEIG_1328
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view of Grand Army Plaza, showing Memorial Arch, Bailey Fountain, apartment buildings on Plaza Street, Williamsburgh Savings Bank, and Manhattan skyline; automobiles, trolley tracks, and pedestrians in foreground. Inscription on verso: "From the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Building one looks over the Memorial Arch toward the skyline of lower New York."
  • Date[194-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorStrauss, Ruth
  • SubjectPlazas ; Triumphal arches ; Traffic circles ; High-rise apartment buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn, 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.