About This Item
- TitleFreeport's new landmark
- Call NumberSCHL_0200
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0201), some of which may also be described in this new record; Typed caption: "Freeport's new landmark--70 foot long, 65 ton, high pressure vessel was raised against the Long Island sky yesterday (October 15) at the new Aerodynamics Laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn at Freeport. ... This tunnel will perform structural and materials tests under conditions simulating those found in free flight at more than 5,000 miles per hour."
- Date1954
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: Oct. 16, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from typed caption on verso of 0200.
- SubjectPolytechnic Institute of Brooklyn ; Wind tunnels
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceOther place
- LocationFreeport (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.