About This Item


  • TitleView of Brooklyn Heights in early days
  • Call NumberNEIG_1977
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0259), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two identical photographs of a drawing. Boats on river below bluff in Brooklyn Heights; sailboat with three figures in right foreground; two gulls skimming over water in center foreground; steamboat with passengers at railings on left; three sailboats close to shore; scattered buildings on shore; large colonnaded building on bluff above shore, with scattered buildings and trees on left and right; horse and carriage before colonnaded building. Typed caption on verso of 0259: "View of Brooklyn Heights in early days." Inscription on verso of 1977: "A row of residences on Brooklyn Heights facing East River."
  • Date[1840?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on 1977: About 1840?. Title from typed caption on verso of 0259. 0259: negative # 2008-14.
  • SubjectSailboats ; Steamboats ; Colonnades [lctgm] ; Historic buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.