About This Item


  • TitleCrescent Athletic Club
  • Call NumberCLUB_0016
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CLUB 0017), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two similar images. Caption (0017): "Crescent Athletic Club at Shore Road and 85th St. The exact date of thie picture is not known, except that it was before 1900." 0016 includes a passenger boat moored at the pier in far left; 0017 includes a street light and several people sitting in an early automobile moving in the foreground.
  • Date[189-?], [190-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0016: grease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso of 0017: date: Dec.20, 1953; "Eagle photo." Title from caption on verso of 0017.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAthletic clubs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Automobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Passenger ships -- New York (State) -- New York ; Street lighting -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.