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  • TitleBoys boating along Canarsie Creek.
  • Call NumberOSOS_0248
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryToddler in a toy boat in the Canarsie Creek, alongside a skiff holding unidentified man and boy. Inscribed in pen on back: William Johnson in boat, 1924, one year old.
  • Date1924
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph, 5 x 7 inches, digitized on December 7, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Steven Kaye at the Jamaica Bay Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectRivers ; Boats and boating
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Canarsie (New York, N.Y.)
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