By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Three photographs of Erie Basin by George Bradford Brainerd (1845-1887). Brainerd was a civil engineer who worked for the city of Brooklyn as Deputy Water Purveyor from 1869 to 1886. His book The Water Works of Brooklyn: A Historical and Descriptive...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Men sit along a wooden dock, at the foot of Court Street and a sailboat floats near the next pier in photograph by George Bradfor Brainerd taken sometime in the 1870s. The photograph is by George Bradford Brainerd , 1845-1887. He was a civil...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Three men, possibly stevedores, loading (or unloading) a large barrel on to (or off of) a freighter, sometimes around the the 1870s. The back of the photograph is inscribed "Atlantic Dock". The photograph is by George Bradford Brainerd , 1845-1887....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1868, engineer G. B. Brainerd, reported in The American Naturalist on the sedimentary layers under the Erie Basin. He found beneath 10 feet of water at low tide: 1. Two feet of mud, the ordinary sediment of the bay 2. One foot of yellow sand 3....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Two atmposheric photos by George Bradford Brainerd. View of three men standing in front of Erie Basin boathouse in Red Hook, 1886. One of the early unofficial names of the area that became Erie Basin was the “Fishing Place,"...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Man sculling in foreground past portion of barge (left), moored steamship (center), and wooden pier and pylons (right); shoreline dotted with masts and sails in background. The photograph is by George Bradford Brainerd, 1845-1887. He was a civil...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A stereoscopic view of the Hamilton Avenue Ferry house, 1877. The ferry was one of the key means for both the working poor and the well-to-do to travel between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Construction on the Brooklyn Bridge had started in 1869 but...
