About This Item

  • TitleScene on Newtown Creek
  • Call NumberNEIG_1411
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTugboat with plume of smoke pushing barge on Newtown Creek in Greenpoint; sides of creek lined with barges and factory buildings.
  • Date1908
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 5 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: 1908. Title from inscription on verso. Retouched.
  • SubjectCanals ; Tugboats ; Barges ; Factories
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (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.