About This Item

  • Title[Brooklyn waterfront]
  • Call NumberWAY_0017
  • Cite AsBreading Way photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of the Brooklyn waterfront and New York Harbor with rowboat in foreground and two tugboats and two passenger paddle wheel steamboats in background.
  • Date1888
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1888. Title supplied by cataloger. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorWay, Breading G. [photographer]
  • SubjectRowboats -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Paddle steamers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Steamboats -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
  • 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.