About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_2338
  • TitleCarroll Street Bridge after planting
  • SummaryGrass plot adjacent to Carroll Street Bridge at Gowanus Canal; wires, pulleys, and tracks bisecting grass plot, with circular flower beds on either side of tracks; side of bridge at left; wooden fence at right; portion of canal between railing and fence; piled lumber and factory with two smokestacks in right background; street with automobiles, pedestrians, and lampposts receeding into left background; wooden building with sign, "Watson & Pittinger Lumber & Timber" beyond canal.Typed caption on verso: "Carroll Street Bridge -- Carroll Street Bridge is one of the oldest bridges in Brooklyn. It was built in 1889. A new motor and brakes were added to it in 1957. This is how it looked in 1912."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: "Aug. 31, 1912." Title from typed caption on recto.
  • SubjectBeds (Gardens) ; Canals ; Bridges ; Pulleys
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Gowanus: Canal Bridges