Image:Brooklyn Bridge rail approaches 1936.jpg

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This aerial photo was taken by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in Summer 1936, after the area was cleared for widening the roadway approach to the Brooklyn Bridge. The photo was scanned by the New York Public Library with Digital Image ID 707312F. The source information is on the verso.

A map showing the elevated lines can be seen at [1].


Public domain This image is a work of a Works Progress Administration employee, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 105).

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File change date and time 01:42, 20 February 2007
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