{"id":988,"date":"2008-02-18T20:47:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:12:21","slug":"1899-film-of-train-crossing-over-brooklyn-bridge-fletchers-castoria-ad-clearly-seen-library-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/02\/18\/1899-film-of-train-crossing-over-brooklyn-bridge-fletchers-castoria-ad-clearly-seen-library-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"1899 Film of Train Crossing Over Brooklyn Bridge &#8211; Fletcher&#8217;s Castoria Ad Clearly Seen &#8211; Library of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/blog\/fletchers_castoria1899.jpg?resize=500%2C389\" alt=\"Thomas Edison - Library of Congress - Crossing to New York Over Brooklyn Bridge\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><br \/>\nThis still was taken from a <em><strong>Library of Congress<\/strong><\/em> archival footage of a train crossing the <strong>Brooklyn Bridge<\/strong> into <strong>Manhattan.<\/strong> The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/24\/fletchers-castoria-on-smith-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fletcher&#8217;s Castoria<\/a><\/em> ad on the right is clearly seen in the beginning of the film. Steam billowing from what possibly was the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/19\/oh-domino-brooklyn-waterfront-1998\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domino Sugar Refiner<\/a><\/em> is an awesome sight.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/blog\/fletchers.jpg?resize=320%2C258\" alt=\"Link to MPEG - Library of Congress [http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/mbrs\/edmp\/1734.mpg]\" width=\"320\" height=\"258\" \/><br \/>\nClick above to view Quicktime MPG file.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/blog\/edison_film.jpg?resize=320%2C191\" alt=\"Edison Film Link - Library of Congress\" width=\"320\" height=\"191\" \/><br \/>\nClick [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/00694260\/\">here<\/a>] \u00a0for link to Library of Congress for other file formats. Choose item #14<br \/>\nNew Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, no. 2 \/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankjump.com\/009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/009.jpg?resize=380%2C570\" alt=\"Fletcher's Castoria\" width=\"380\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This still was taken from a Library of Congress archival footage of a train crossing the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan. The Fletcher&#8217;s Castoria ad on the right is clearly seen in the beginning of the film. Steam billowing from what possibly was the Domino Sugar Refiner is an awesome sight. Click above to view Quicktime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226,231,562,892,1272,1273,1599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn-bridge","category-brooklyn-history","category-fletchers-castoria","category-library-of-congress","category-railroad","category-railways","category-vintage-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-fW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20211,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/20211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}