About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1297
  • TitleGowanus Canal Bridge
  • SummaryOpen drawbridge over Gowanus Canal at Hamilton Avenue; docked barge in left foreground; smokestacks, industrial buildings, and second bridge in background.
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1905. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectCanals ; Drawbridges ; Barges
  • 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: Canal: General