About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1293
  • TitleCarroll Street Bridge
  • SummaryAerial photograph. Portion of Gowanus Canal showing Carroll Street and Union Street bridges; tugboats docked in canal, lower left; warehouses and industrial plants on both sides of canal, with parked trucks and automobiles; large water tower in right foreground; rows of residential buildings in left background.Caption: "Carroll Street Bridge -- A retractile bridge carrying Carroll Street over Gowanus Canal. Opened to traffic in 1889."
  • Date[195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial photographsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed label on verso.
  • SubjectCanals ; Bridges ; Tugboats ; Water towers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceGowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Gowanus: Canal: Bridges