About This Item

  • TitleWashington Ave. Bridge
  • Call NumberBRID_0341
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0339, BRID 0343, BRID 0342, BRID 0340, BRID 0381, BRID 0380), some of which may also be described in this new record; Seven views of the Washington Avenue Bridge located in Brooklyn Navy Yard over Wallabout Canal. 0339 shows bridge under construction or repair and includes a fire hydrant in foreground.
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0339: grease pencil cropping marks. Date typed on verso of 0339: Dec. 14, 1936; date stamped on versos of 0340-0343, 0380, 0381: Aug. 31, 1912. Title from typed caption on verso of 0339. Typed on recto of 0340, 0343, 0380: "Before planting;" 0341-342, 0381: "After planting."
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire hydrants [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.