About This Item

  • TitleInspection of progress
  • Call NumberTRAN_0134
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (TRAN 0132), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two similar images. Caption (0134): "Inspection of progress on the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is made by Mayor O'Dwyer and other city officials. ... Shown with the mayor are George V. McLaughlin, Borough Works Commissioner John J. Lynch, Deputy Mayor John J. Bennett, and Robert Moses, president of the Triborough Bridge Authority."
  • Date1948, 1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0134: grease pencil cropping marks. On verso of 0132: date inscribed: 1949; 0134: date stamped: Aug. 17, 1948. Title from caption on verso of 0134.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMoses, Robert, 1888-1981 ; O'Dwyer, William, 1890-1964 ; Construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tunnels -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.