About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1295
  • TitleCanal guardian
  • SummaryPortrait of police officer at or near Gowanus Canal; partial view of police officer in left background; brass bell in right background. Caption: "Canal guardian -- Mike Harrigan, who has spent 29 years on harbor duty with the Police Department, really considers Gowanus a 'region of the dead,' like the River Styx of mythology. He should -- he has picked up, he recollects, 'a couple of thousand bodies' while on duty there . . . ."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: June[e] 23, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPolice ; Bells
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gowanus 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: General