About This Item


  • Title[Williamsburg Bridge]
  • Call NumberBRID_0355
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge, which opened in December, 1903, during a renovation, probably to accomodate automobile traffic. Image includes several pedestrians standing in foreground.
  • Date1906
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteStamped on verso: "Eagle; May 5, 1906." Title from inscription on verso; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectBridges -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceNew York (N.Y.)Williamsburg Bridge (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.