About This Item

  • Title[Six Brooklyn factories]
  • Call NumberWORK_0232
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0238, WORK 0237, WORK 0236, WORK 0235, WORK 0234), some of which may also be described in this new record; Six views, in different sizes, of Brooklyn factories. 0232 factory tower has name, "Sherry;" 0234 shows retouched factory on New York Harbor waterfront. Inscriptions on versos: 0235: "Factory buildings on Commercial Wharf, Atlantic Dock;" 0236: "The Corbin Plant, sold to Grinberg Bros. for stove factory by W. L. Starkey;" 0237: "79-87 Bridge Street; 0238: "Vanderbilt & Atlantic Ave., Atlantic Railyards in background." 0238 is an aerial view. Five of the factories are not identified and three of the images are not dated.
  • Date1912, 1913, 1925
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso of 0235: date stamped: Oct. 20, 1912; 0236: date stamped: May 11, 1913; "Photograph by John F. Sweeney & Son" stamp; 0237: "Joseph Smith, Photographer" stamp; date inscribed: March 29/25. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectFactories -- New York (State) -- New York ; Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (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.