About This Item

  • Title[Two houses, one with Ionic columns]
  • Call NumberBRAI_0019
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo large wooden houses in Flatbush; house on right with peaked roof and decorative brackets on cornice; house on left with portico supported by large Ionic columns; bare trees and bushes in yard behind wooden fence; unpaved road in foreground. Typed label on verso: "Clarkson House, Flatbush."
  • Date1877
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger; date from negative. 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 ; Columns, Ionic ; 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.