About This Item

  • TitleKosciuszko Bridge
  • Call NumberBRID_0195
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0281, BRID 0192, BRID 0193, BRID 0191, BRID 0196, BRID 0197, BRID 0194), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eight views, in different sizes, of the Kosciuszko Bridge. 0196 and 0281 are architectural renderings. Five of the images are undated. Opened on August 23, 1939 as the Meeker Avenue Bridge, it was renamed on July 10, 1940.
  • Date1939-1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description8 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteOn verso (0191): date inscribed: Aug. 4/39; 0197: date stamped: Mar. 11, 1951. Title from inscription on verso of 0191.
  • SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Kosciuszko Bridge (New York, N.Y.)Queens (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.