About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1757
  • TitleSouth Brooklyn breakwater
  • SummaryDrawing of aerial view of proposed development of Red Hook shoal and breakwater, Bay Ridge Channel, and surrounding shorelines, waterfronts, and harbors.
  • Date1921
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 7 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: City of New York Department of Docks airplane sketch showing proposed development of Red Hook shoal, Murray Hulbert, Commissioner of Docks, Feb., 1921." printed in black in lower right corner. On verso; date inscribed: Aug. 21/21. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBreakwaters ; Shorelines
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (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: Red Hook: Neighborhoods