About This Item


  • TitleSchenck (Crooke) house
  • Call NumberAUST_0283
  • Cite AsDaniel Berry Austin photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryWooden-frame shingle house with portico and dormer windows on Crooke Road and East 63rd Street in what is now Canarsie; ivy covering right side of house; forking, unpaved road passing in front of house; leafy trees in yard; portion of pond or marsh in right background.
  • Date1903
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle and date (5/30/1903) from Austin Collection list. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorAustin, Daniel Berry
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceCanarsie (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.