About This Item


  • Title[First Avenue]
  • Call NumberNEIG_1165
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1164), some of which may also be described in this new record; Viaduct with large area with sand (?), grass, railroad tracks, and several piles of railroad ties in foreground.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "9/15/10" in white ink in lower right. On verso: date stamped: May 23, 1914. On verso: "Looking west; viaduct carrying First Avenue over Bay Ridge Terminal Yard of N. Y. Connecting R. R." Pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectRailroad tracks ; Viaducts
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.