Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRID 0310, BRID 0306, BRID 0305, BRID 0308, BRID 0312, BRID 0307, BRID 0311), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eight views, in different sizes, of the New York Connecting Railroad, a rail line in Queens that links New York City with Long Island that was completed in 1916. 0305-0310, 0312 show line under construction. Printed caption in lower right corner of 0311: "Erection of Little Hell Gate Bridge [over the Hell Gate section of the East River]; view from Sunken Meadows, Nov. 1, 1915."
Note0307 and 0309 are identical. Dates stamped on verso: 0305: Jan. 4, 1914; 0307, 0309: May 23, 1914; 0308: Oct. 2, 1915; 0312: Jan. 13, 1915. Stamped on verso of 0308: "Brown Brothers;" 0312: "Eagle;" 0311: "B. Hellmich, General Photographer." Title supplied by cataloger.
SubjectNew York Connecting Railroad (New York, N.Y.) ; Bridges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads, Elevated -- New York (State) -- New York