About This Item
- TitleOut of the past the future grows
- Call NumberNEIG_0263
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "Out of the past the future grows--From a century-old engraving, a scene on old Brooklyn Heights -- the Penny Bridge at the foot of Montague St., with old-fashioned street lamps and an old-fashioned Brooklyn burgher on horseback. The Penny Bridge has now given way to progress in the form of the new Brooklyn Heights Esplanade, part of the expanding Civic Center improvements."
- Date1953
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genreengravings (prints)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn recto: caption below image: "Brooklyn Heights, opposite the City of New York; Saturday, June 25, 1953." On verso: date: Jun[e] 8, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectBridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Footbridges -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.