About This Item
- TitleAhoy there, skipper!
- Call NumberNEIG_1298
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1299), some of which may also be described in this new record; Dispatcher with megaphone looking out window to passing tugboat and moored ships on Gowanus Canal. Caption: "Ahoy there, skipper! -- Still the central point for tugboat operations along the Gowanus Canal after 75 years is the office of the Gowanus Towing Company, overlooking the South Brooklyn waterway at the foot of Smith St. A barge pickup is to be made upstream, and the dispatcher Bill Van Pelt megaphones the order to Capt. Pierce Farley of the Taurus."
- Date1949
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 25, 1949; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched.
- CreatorGeller, Jules [photographer]
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectCanals ; Tugboats ; Ships ; Megaphones [lctgm]
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceGowanus Canal (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.