About This Item

  • TitleGroup in a Brooklyn street
  • Call NumberWILC_0099
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryLarge group of poor or working-class children posing for picture on cobblestone alley between wooden tenement buildings; younger children sitting on cobblestones in front, older children standing behind and beside them.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsgroup portraitsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 72.a. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectPoor children -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Slums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Urban poor -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.