About This Item

  • TitleBlown ashore at Sea Gate
  • Call NumberNEIG_1783
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Blown ashore at Sea Gate--Big railroad barge loaded with 10 freight cars rests on sand and rocks at Norton Point, Sea Gate, where gales drove it early today. No one was aboard the barge. Police believed it had been torn loose from moorings on New Jersey side."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Feb. 12, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBarges ; Beaches ; Railroad cars [lctgm] ; Shorelines
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sea Gate (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.