Bridges - Brooklyn Bridge - [View of the Swamp, an area populated by leather tanners.]

Brooklyn Bridge, viewed northeastward from Manhattan and showing this engineering triumph spanning the East River to Brooklyn. In the foreground is the locality, better known as "The Swamp," an area populated by leather tanners. About 1890 Mildenburg, photo P. L. Sperr Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection