About This Item

  • Title[Shipbuilding at Brooklyn Navy Yard]
  • Call NumberNEIG_2418
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 2417, NEIG 2416, NEIG 2419), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of shipbuilding at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 2416 shows a destroyer under constuction. Inscription on verso of 2417: "View shows part of three-story boat shop." Caption on verso of 2419: "High-pressure boiler weighing 65 tons is lowered to 60,000-ton carrier Saratoga under construction ..."
  • Date1931, 1935, 1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note2416: 7 x 5 in.; 2419: 10 x 8 in. On verso: date inscribed: 2416: Jan. 14/35; 2417: March 16/31; 2418: Oct. 25/35; date stamped: Apr. 21, 1954. Stamped on verso of 2419: "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Lambert." Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard ; Boilers ; Destroyers (Warships) -- New York (State) -- New York ; Shipbuilding -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Navy Yard (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.