About This Item

  • TitleChurch of Our Lady of Mercy
  • Call NumberCHUR_1131
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CHUR 1130), some of which may also be described in this new record; Facade of Our Lady of Mercy Church, DeKalb Avenue and Debevoise Place, with iron fence along front, tree in left foreground, and residential building (perhaps rectory?) on far right. (Church relocated to Schermerhorn Street and Nevins Street in 1908.) NOte: At the time of cataloging, there is no Debevoise Place in Brooklyn. The street was apparently renamed.
  • Date1906
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1906. On verso: "Torn down." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectOur Lady of Mercy Church ; Catholic church buildings [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.