About This Item

  • TitleCotton bales, Atlantic Ave. dock
  • Call NumberBRAI_0289
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryBlurry view of men working with stacks of cotton bales on wharf; row of four-story brick buildings at right; moored vessel at left.
  • Date[187-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from label on recto. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectStevedores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cotton -- Handling
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.