About This Item
- TitleOpen rubbish wagon
- Call NumberWORK_0862
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryHorse pulling wagon loaded high with refuse; sanitation worker standing next to wagon at right; other horses pulling similar wagons along road in background. Inscription: "Open rubbish wagon: What happens when the wind blows? The City should prevent littering of streets by confining rubbish in properly designed vehicles. The 'Model District' equipment will prevent this nuisance."
- Date1914
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from typed caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 1, 1914; Eagle stamp.
- CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
- SubjectRefuse collection vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (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.