About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2379
  • TitleBrooklyn Army Base Terminal
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 2376), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two interior views in different sizes. Caption (2376): "These freight cars are being unloaded in 'the well' of one of the huge Army Transportation Corps warehouses at the Brooklyn Army Base Terminal [located on Second Avenue from 58th Street to 65th Street], an installation of the New York Port of Embarkation. ..."
  • Date1918, 1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note2379: 10 x 8 in. On recto of 2379: "Nov. 21, 1918" printed in white ink in lower left corner. On verso of 2376: date stamped: Jan. 10, 1945. Title from caption on verso of 2376.
  • CreatorUnited States. Army. Signal Corps [photographer]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Army Terminal (New York, N.Y.) ; Warehouses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Brooklyn Army Terminal: Buildings