About This Item
- TitleExcelsior Yachting Club
- Call NumberCLUB_0499
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CLUB 0500, CLUB 0501), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three images. Caption (0501): "The Excelsior Yachting Club, 100 years old, will be torn down to make way for the proposed strip of the Belt Parkway skairting Gravesend [now. Sheepshead] Bay. Club officers plan to construct a modern building closer to the water." 0501 shows two boats and a portion of a third one dry docked in the foreground.
- Date1939
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteDate inscribed on verso of 0501: March 5/39; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso of 0501.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard ; Clubhouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Yacht clubs -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (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.