About This Item

  • TitleVerrazano Narrows Bridge twin catwalks
  • Call NumberBRID_0332
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryClose-up: caption: "From its base the Brooklyn tower of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge rises nearly 700 feet to the twin catwalks that will serve as work platforms for cable spinning operations starting Thursday, March 7. Spinning wheels carrying the galvanized steel wire for the bridge's main cables will 'top' this tower and its counterpart at the Staten Island end of the bridge thousands of times as the cables are spun by United Steel's American Bridge Division."
  • Date[1963]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBridges -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (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.