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.