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[N.Y. from Brooklyn tower, Williamsburg Bridge, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Print

[N.Y. from Brooklyn tower, Williamsburg Bridge, New York, N.Y.], [between 1903 and 1910] — historic photograph
[N.Y. from Brooklyn tower, Williamsburg Bridge, New York, N.Y.], [between 1903 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [N.Y. from Brooklyn tower, Williamsburg Bridge, New York, N.Y.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[N.Y. from Brooklyn tower, Williamsburg Bridge, New York, N.Y.]

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Taken from the tower on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge, this view looks out over the East River toward Manhattan, with the piers and wharves lining the shore. The bridge had opened in 1903, and the years this negative was made were a period of fast growth on both banks, when the waterfront handled much of the city's freight and ferry traffic. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the large glass-plate negative, documented American cities and landscapes in the early twentieth century, so the picture records the harbor's working edge as it looked then.

Created / published[between 1903 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 367" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033446. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBridges. Piers & wharves.United States--New York (State)--New York.United States--New York (State)--East River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 810 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66707

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