About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1311
  • Title4th Ave. looking from 27th St. toward 43rd
  • SummaryPortion of Fourth Avenue looking south from 27th Street, largely empty of buildings and traffic; manhole cover in foreground; utility poles, sidewalks, and median strip receding into distance; three wooden, three-story houses facing avenue at left.
  • Date1909
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Nov. 15, 1909; Eagle stamp. Title from inscription on verso. Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectStreets ; Median strips ; Manhole covers ; Wooden-frame houses ; Utility poles [lctgm]
  • 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: Fourth Avenue