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- Three Brooklyn Bridges: 1908
- Feb. 22, 1908. "Three New York-Brooklyn bridges from Brooklyn." An amazingly detailed panorama of New York recorded by George ... of the original 8x10 inch glass negative. From the left: Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge (under construction) and Williamsburg Bridge. ... Posted by Dave - 08/19/2012 - 5:42pm -
- Brooklyn Bridge: 1903
- New York circa 1903. "East River and Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan." Among the many signs competing for our ... starboard ! Looking to the right of the bridge,on the Brooklyn side,you'll see a ferryboat at a really bad angle! She's tilting hard ... hard to port with lots of propwash behind it heading for Brooklyn, just south of the bridge?!? Looks like it's trying hard to bank to ... Posted by Dave - 07/31/2012 - 4:56pm -
- Brooklyn Public: 1941
- January 13, 1941. "Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza, New York." ... Samuel H. Gottscho. View full size.
The Library at Brooklyn I actually like the architecture. Reminds me of ancient Egypt, in ... that it looks like long after all the other buildings in Brooklyn crumble, this one would still be standing, giving testimony to all the ... Posted by Dave - 09/13/2011 - 3:59pm -
- Smoking Concerts: 1906
- 1906. "Post Office and Eagle Building. Brooklyn, N.Y." At the Alcazar Theatre: "smoking concerts." Detroit Publishing ... I assume this photo shows Montague Street in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Heights Railroad operated cable cars on Montague Street from the Wall ... Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 7:31pm -
- Brooklyn Bridge: 1904
- Circa 1904. "Manhattan, East River and Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn." Another grayscale view of an evergreen subject. 8x10 glass negative. ... Posted by Dave - 07/20/2012 - 12:20am -
- Brooklyn Bridge: 1905
- New York circa 1905. "Brooklyn Bridge over East River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit ... I love to visit New York, and every time I do, I go to Brooklyn and I walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan. I am always amazed at t his amazing structure ... Posted by Dave - 07/31/2012 - 4:53pm -
- Brooklyn Pin Boys: 1910
- ... boys working in Subway Bowling Alleys, 65 South Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., every night. Three smaller boys were kept out of the photo by ... Posted by Dave - 09/08/2011 - 8:37pm -
- Miami, Florida: 1908
- ... was a grocer in Miami around that time.
Wild Guess Brooklyn, New York
Identity Washington Avenue, Titusville Florida.
... store. (76)
Survey says I believe this is Brooklyn, NY. I took the easy way out and just searched for 1200 Avenue O from ... Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 10:40pm -
- Ghost Hotel: 1905
- "Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, circa 1905." Plus a ghost or two in this time exposure of the hotel's Clark Street facades. This Brooklyn Heights landmark, which by the 1930s was New York's largest hotel, ... river. I woke, panicked and got off at the first stop in Brooklyn. It was the St. George Hotel. I was amazed that a hotel had its own ... Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 7:34pm -
- Our Lady of Lourdes School
- ... Hospital facility on 46th Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn. It's now called Lutheran Medical Center. - Dave]
Lutheran ... Posted by Dave - 09/08/2011 - 9:17pm -
- Keg Run: 1943
- ... supply of Trommer's Beer & Ale.
Trommers of Brooklyn Trommers Brewery was just outside the gates of Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn. (They had a second brewery in Orange NJ)
Famous for their all ... Posted by Dave - 03/08/2013 - 3:31pm -
- 3 a.m. Sunday, Brooklyn: 1908
- ... "3 a.m. Sunday, February 23, 1908. Newsboys selling on Brooklyn Bridge. Harry Ahrenpreiss, 30 Willet St. Said was 13 years old. Abe ... to get across the bridge if you didn't buy a paper.
Brooklyn Bridge Newsies That kid at front left looks like 12 going on 37. ... Posted by Dave - 09/08/2011 - 9:15pm -
- Starlight Park: 1921
- ... the NY Hungarians, Praha, Savoia, Hakoah, Eintracht, Brooklyn Wanderers, Bronx Scots, my old man's former team the NY Corinthians, ... Posted by Dave - 07/27/2012 - 2:24pm -
- Brooklyn Terminal: 1903
- New York circa 1903. "Brooklyn Terminal at Brooklyn Bridge." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing ... Xed Out Eagle warehouse is the last man standing on the Brooklyn side. Most of the surrounding area area fell victim to the ... Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 5:32pm -
- Bustling Brooklyn: 1910
- New York circa 1910. "Brooklyn. Washington Street from Fulton with Beecher statue." Now Cadman Plaza. ... Below is the same perspective (from the steps of the Brooklyn City/Borough Hall) from November of 2004. A sliver of the Post Office tower in the 1906 view can be seen behind the Brooklyn Eagle Building tower. (Please excuse the dark foreground - long, hard ... Posted by Dave - 10/09/2012 - 4:34pm -
- Brooklyn Public Library: 1941
- February 4, 1941. "Foyer, Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza." Acetate ... stacks, searching for my grandfather's April 1903 Brooklyn Daily Eagle obit. Since that time, the Library has digitized every ... Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 12:09am -
- Brooklyn Bridge: 1909
- "Brooklyn Bridge and East River. April 1909." At left, the Manhattan Bridge under construction in this view looking east into Brooklyn with Manhattan Terminal at lower left. 8x10 glass negative, George ... rooftop billboards corresponds to the sight lines from the Brooklyn Bridge approaches.
More nastiness Piper Heidsieck Chewing ... Posted by Dave - 08/19/2012 - 6:40pm -
- Dry Dock: 1910
- Circa 1910. "Brooklyn Navy Yard, dry dock No. 4." The battleship is unidentified, but ...
NoDak Looks like USS North Dakota (BB-29) to me.
Brooklyn Navy Yard 2011 I took this photo yesterday from the same spot as ... bricks!
Fire damage The USS North Dakota was at the Brooklyn Navy Yard at least twice in 1910 - in June and again in October. On ... Posted by Dave - 08/08/2012 - 4:03pm -
- Dead End: 1905
- ... many of which were located next to Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn. I hear that bones are still occasionally found!
Nowadays he'd ... this site but must comment on this picture. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1950s. There was a livery stable on Dean Street where peddlers ... Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 8:56am -
- The Loneliest Yard Sale: 1975
- ... any more they happen to have.
Come to Williamsburg, Brooklyn and all this crap will be overpriced in vintage boutiques for all ... Posted by tterrace - 09/29/2011 - 8:21pm -
- Tenement Kitchen: 1905
- ... glass negative. View full size.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn This could be straight out of the book.
It's funny how nice a ... Posted by Dave - 07/23/2012 - 5:43pm -
- Brooklyn Murder Trial
- ... with his clients, two boys accused of murder in a 1930's Brooklyn courtroom. Both boys were found not guilty.
Proper Attire One ... men and women.
That's Criminal Court in Brooklyn It used to be called the Central Court Building. I'm a criminal ... Posted by ltitus - 04/26/2007 - 4:56pm -
- Manhattan Rising: 1907
- Manhattan circa 1907. "The heart of New York from Brooklyn." A continuation of this view across the East River. Landmarks ... Building under construction, the Park Row building and Brooklyn Bridge. View full size.
Hotel Margaret? Likely the two pics ... Posted by Dave - 12/03/2012 - 12:12pm -
- Rockaway Bungalows: 1910
- ... rent a bungalow in the summer months to get us out of Brooklyn for awhile. Great memories.
Rockaway, a kid's dream I ... was a great summer getaway for a working class family from Brooklyn.
Elisa on B 29th Was your grandma named Bessie? I lived in the ... Posted by Dave - 08/04/2012 - 5:56am -
- Play-by-Play: 1924
- ... of telegraph sender was made by the Vibroplex Company of Brooklyn, NY, whose logo featured a likeness of something like a Box Elder Bug. ... Posted by Dave - 05/05/2013 - 6:37pm -
- The Bowery: 1900
- ... Company. View full size.
A tree grows in Brooklyn But not in the Bowery.
The Manhattan Bridge of 1909 took ... Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 7:36pm -
- Kanatenah Flats: 1910
- ... to 1994 Oops. More here.
A Slice of Brooklyn in Leatherstocking Country 30 years ago, I lived around the corner ... and this part of Genesee Street always felt more like Brooklyn.
(Prints, DPC, Utica) ... Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 3:39pm -
- Brooklyn Bridge: 1900
- New York circa 1900. "Brooklyn Bridge, East River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit ... Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 7:36pm -
- Louis Chevrolet: 1918
- ... in their Frontenac at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway in Brooklyn, racing in the Harkness Handicap. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham ... "mechanic" is in your photo of Chevrolet at the wheel in Brooklyn, 1918? I think it may have been my grandfather, but I only have one ... Posted by Dave - 08/06/2012 - 3:57pm -
- Under the El: 1942
- ... system that run above city streets, particularly in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, but few New Yorkers today would know what you ... Posted by Dave - 05/21/2013 - 1:02pm -
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