About This Item


  • TitleGateway to pleasure
  • Call NumberCLUB_0493
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jul[y] 10, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • SummaryCaption: "Gateway to pleasure--Approach of summer finds '51 sailing season already a month old as former Commodore Bert Bachman of 21 S. Portland Ave., direcgtor of safety services for Brooklyn Red Cross, adjusts new club [Miramar Yacht Club] sign under watchful eyes of Jeffrey Hobart, 9, [standing next to a bicycole] who lives in bungalow adjacent to clubhouse."
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBicycles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Clubs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Yacht clubs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • FolderFolder: Clubs: Social Miramar Yacht Club
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (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.