About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1319
  • TitleSwan song for 345 17 St
  • SummaryFive boys in front on entrance of brick apartment house at 345 Seventeenth Street, two playing guitars; iron fence along front; three garbage cans on sidewalk in right foreground, and sign, "For sale," etc. attached to wall at left of doorway.
  • Date1955
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1955; photographer's name on address label. Title from inscription on verso. On verso: "In the path of the Prospect Expressway."
  • CreatorHammer, Abe
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBoys ; Guitar ; Refuse and refuse disposal ; Fences
  • 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: Seventeenth Street