Celebration in Jamaica

Collection: This image is from the William J. Murray Photographs Collection and is depicted in a glass plate negative, negative, print and digital image.; Image is part of the William J. Murray Photographs Collection

Date: April 20, 1898; 1898-04-20 Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints Dimension: 4 x 5 inches (glass plate negative); 3 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: William J. Murray Identifier: aql:10731 wjm-000033 wjm-000033.tif

Description: Celebrating the completed brick-and-asphalt paving of the Brooklyn-Jamaica plank road. People line the streets, buildings are decorated with bunting, bicycles, carts, and a man on horseback fill the street. Note the square, white telephone sign at center, near the bottom of the utility pole.

Title : Celebration in Jamaica

Collection : aql:10431; vital:1

Creator : William J. Murray

Date : April 20, 1898; 1898-04-20

Summary/Description : Celebrating the completed brick-and-asphalt paving of the Brooklyn-Jamaica plank road. People line the streets, buildings are decorated with bunting, bicycles, carts, and a man on horseback fill the street. Note the square, white telephone sign at center, near the bottom of the utility pole.

Subject : Clothing and dress; Streets; Parades

Relation : This image is from the William J. Murray Photographs Collection and is depicted in a glass plate negative, negative, print and digital image.; Image is part of the William J. Murray Photographs Collection

Rights : Public domain

Coverage : Fulton Street (now Jamaica Avenue), Jamaica, NY Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white negative; black and white print; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints; 4 x 5 inches (glass plate negative); 3 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:10731 wjm-000033 wjm-000033.tif