About This Item
- TitlePlumb Beach Channel Bridge
- Call NumberPARK_0067
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "Construction work [with derricks and dredging equipment] on the new Plumb Beach Channel Bridge from Plumb Island to Emmons Ave., Sheepshead Bay, goes ahead, following repair of the damage caused when a 75-ton girder broke loose from its cable on Nov. 6, plunging two steelworkers to death in the channel. The bridge will be part of the Belt Parkway when completed." The image also includes two small tugboats in right foreground.
- Date1939
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Dec. 4/39. Title from caption on verso.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectBridges -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cranes, derricks, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York ; Dredges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tugboats -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceGerritsen Beach (New York, N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (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.