About This Item

  • Call NumberBRID_0015
  • TitleAn artist's conception of the Brooklyn Bridge tragedy of May 30, 1883
  • SummaryEtching showing disaster caused by bridge walkway collapse. Caption: "The conditions of the safe passage of a huge crowd across the bridge were as plain before the disaster as they are now. The two currents should be kept separate, and the police force should be adequate to keep them constantly moving and to clear the approaches from loiterers. Peddlars and every kind of obstruction should be summarily moved on. This will be now probably done. Harper's Weekly. June 9, 1883."
  • Date1933
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 8 in.
  • Genreetchings (prints)gelatin silver prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: April 28/33; "Photograph from Seidman Photo Service." Probably cropped. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorSeidman Photo Service [photographer]
  • SubjectBridges -- Accidents -- New York (State) -- New York ; Disasters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Bridges: Brooklyn: Accidents and damages