About This Item

  • TitleBusy scene on a Brooklyn dock
  • Call NumberRUTT_0064
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMany bundles of unidentified cargo and several workmen on Bush Terminal dock with passenger steamboat with smokestack in center and sailboat on each side.
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 16, 1912; Brooklyn Daily Eagle label; photographer's stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectDocks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Freight and freightage ; Steamboats ; Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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.