About This Item

  • TitleHunterfly Road historic houses of Weeksville
  • Call NumberPOST_0149
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Postcard collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of two yellow clapboard houses set off by sloping lawn at Weeksville settlement in Bedford Stuyvesant (now administerd by Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History); oval, black and white insert showing portrait of nineteenth century African American woman. Caption: "Hunterfly Road Historic houses of Weeksville, Brooklyn, N.Y., being restored as an African American History Museum. Inset shows The Weeksville Lady."
  • Date1986
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 postcard : color ; 4 x 6 in.
  • Genrepostcards
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKing, Alex ; Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History
  • PublisherPublishing Center for Cultural Resources, NYC
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Postcard collection
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  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Weeksville (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.