Brooklyn Edison Co. Bldg., Pearl & Willoughby Sts., Brooklyn – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Brooklyn Edison Co. Bldg., Pearl & Willoughby Sts., Brooklyn, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Brooklyn Edison Co. Bldg., Pearl & Willoughby Sts., Brooklyn
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Few utility buildings in 1930s Brooklyn carried as direct a link to Thomas Edison as the Brooklyn Edison Company's building at Pearl and Willoughby Streets, shown here around 1932. The company supplied the borough's electricity and traced its roots to the Edison electric lighting enterprises of the 1880s, so the building stood as a visible sign of the power network that had changed city life. The photograph is credited to Irving Underhill, a New York photographer known for street and architectural views, and it preserves a record of the downtown streetscape as well as the company's architecture.
| Created / published | c1932. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | J11853 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc., N.Y.C. No. C 20569. |
| Subjects | Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Streets--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,086 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199195 |
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