About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1296
  • TitleBusy Gowanus
  • SummaryPortion of Gowanus Canal showing warehouses, docked barges, smokestacks, and various building materials. Inscription: "Busy Gowanus where the coal, lumber & building materials of half Brooklyn are received."
  • Date1906
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 5 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 3, 1906; Eagle stamp. Title from inscription on verso. Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectCanals ; Barges ; Warehouses ; Building materials
  • 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