About This Item


  • Title[Board of Transportation Building]
  • Call NumberNEIG_0472
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0471), some of which may also be described in this new record; Architect's rendering (drawing) of walkway with colonnade under proposed Board of Transportation Building to be constructed at Willoughby Street and Jay Street with many pedestrians and several commercial (?) buildings in background.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On recto: "Chester B. Parce (?), 1948" written in ink (?) in lower left corner. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 10, 1950; photographer's stamp. Title from inscription on verso; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • CreatorDuryea, Drix
  • SubjectNew York (N.Y.). Department of Transportation ; Columns, Concrete ; Pedestrians
  • 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.