About This Item

  • TitleSchenck Homestead
  • Call NumberNEIG_0313
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0314), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views, in different sizes, of the Schenck Homestead, a small, wood-frame house, located in Canarsie. 0314 includes a wood fence along front.The exact location is unknown. 0314 is a snapshot.
  • Date1926, 1927
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printssnapshots
  • NoteOn verso: 0313: date stamped: Oct. 26, 1929; 0314: date inscribed: Aug. 5/27. Stamped on verso of 0313: "Eagle Quills." Title from captions on versos.
  • SubjectFences -- New York (State) -- New York ; Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Houses -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • 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.