About This Item

  • TitleSheepshead Bay Speedway grandstand
  • Call NumberNEIG_1839
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1844, NEIG 1835), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views, in different sizes, of Sheepshead Bay Speedway grandstand under construction. 1835 and 1839 include a portion of the racetrack. Two of the images are undated.
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso of 1835: date stamped: Aug. 29, 1915; Eagle stamp; inscription: "Largest grandstand ever erected; comfortably seats 70,000." Title from inscription on verso of 1835.
  • SubjectConstruction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Grandstands -- New York (State) -- New York ; Racetracks (Automobile racing) -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (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.