About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1290
  • TitleGowanus Bay
  • SummaryDrawing of Gowanus Bay, with docked sailboat and small wooden building at left, with small buildings in distance in background, a group of men at end of pier in the center, and several sailboats in distance in right background.
  • Date[1867]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. Caption on verso on typed label. Caption on recto: "Drawn from nature by George Hayward; for H. McCloskey's Manual 1867; lith. by Hayward & Lepine, 171 Pearl St., N.Y.; Gowanus Bay."
  • CreatorHayward, George
  • SubjectBays ; Sailboats
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceGowanus 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: Basin