About This Item

  • TitleNow U.S. property
  • Call NumberNEIG_1399
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view of industrial plant in Greenpoint; train or vehicular tracks at left and in vacant lot in right foreground; coal or gravel piles in fenced lot at center; loading bins, derrick, and two-story brick building with sign, "Greenpoint Coal Docks" adjacent to gravel piles; East River and Manhattan skyline in background.Caption: "Now U.S. property -- The U.S. Government today took possession of the huge Greenpoint Coal Docks property at Newtown Cerek [sic] and the East River as enemy Alien-owner by the Stinnes family which financed the early rise of Hitler to power."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Dec. 5, 1947; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCoal trade ; Sand and gravel plants ; Loaders (Machines)
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.