About This Item


  • TitleWorld's largest turbine
  • Call NumberWORK_1079
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 1078, WORK 1080, WORK 1077), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four close-up views of turbine at Consolidated Edison Company building at the foot of Hudson Avenue. 1079 is not dated.
  • Date1933, 1935
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped and retouched. Dates inscribed on verso: 1078, 1080: Jan. 8/33; 1079: June 15/35. Title from inscription on verso of 1078.
  • SubjectConsolidated Edison Company of New York, inc ; Electric utilities -- New York (State) -- New York ; Turbines -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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.