About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2461
  • TitleDefying change
  • SummaryOld man standing on wharf leaning on wooden structure, with metal pail on top, with right arm and on piling with left hand, portion of dog standing behind him, and bay on right. Caption: "Defying change--Abe Sith, 81, dwells happily in a houseboat on Mill Basin, one of the last havens open to Brooklyn boat owners. Marine Park improvements have scuttled now filled-in Mill Creek, and boats formerly berthed there are filling shipyards and yacht club waters along the shore of Mill Basin."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 20, 1949. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHarbors ; Pails ; Wharves
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Mill Basin (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: Mill Basin: Harbor