About This Item


  • TitleAmerican Sugar Refining Company receiving wharf
  • Call NumberWORK_1104
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0209, WORK 0210, WORK 0199), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of stevedores unloading bags and barrels of raw sugar at receiving dock of American Sugar Refining Company in Williamsburg. Company was located on Kent Avenue between Division Avenue and South 11th Street.
  • Date1950, 1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDates stamped on verso: 0199: Nov. 13, 1950; 0209: Mar. 30, 1951; 1104: Apr. 9, 1951; all also have Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso of 1104.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCargo handling ; Cargo ships -- New York (State) -- New York ; Food industry and trade -- New York (State) -- New York ; Freight and freightage -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sugar trade -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.