About This Item


  • TitleWilliamsburg Bridge
  • Call NumberBRID_0353
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0350, BRID 0351), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views of Williamsburg Bridge repair and machinery. Inscriptions: 0350: "Ten-inch pin drilled and ready to collapse;" 0351: "old 10-inch pin drilled in half; new 13-inch pin;" 0353: "7-bladed steel drilling machine." 0351 includes portion of bridge walkway with portion of either Brooklyn or Manhattan in distant left background.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 31, 1914. Retouched. Title from inscription on verso of 0350.
  • SubjectBridges -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Drilling and boring machinery -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceWilliamsburg 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.