About This Item

  • TitleOld Sugarhouse Prison, Rose & Duane Sts
  • Call NumberWILC_0040
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of six-story brick building in Manhattan, first used as a sugar factory, later as a British prison during the Revolutionary War, in process of demolition; rubble of brick and stone and other demolition debris in foreground.
  • Date[1892]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 5 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from inscription on WILC 0041. Original cyanotype image has number: 117.c. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectFactories -- New York (State) -- New York ; Military prisons -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceManhattan (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.