About This Item

  • TitleOld Vanderbilt House, Flatbush
  • Call NumberBRAI_0014
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo-story wooden house in Flatbush with three dormer windows (mostly obscured by trees) and sweeping roof forming canopy over columned porch; wooden fence in front, with conifers and bare trees; unpaved road with patches of snow and trollery or train tracks in foreground.
  • Date1877
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle and date from inscription on cardboard backing beneath image. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses ; Historic buildings
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.