About This Item

  • TitleSheepshead Bay Speedway
  • Call NumberNEIG_1838
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1834), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views, in different sizes, of Sheepshead Bay Speedway grandstand during construction; both include section of racetrack.
  • Date[191-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note1834: 7 x 9 in. Title from inscription on verso of 1834.
  • 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.