About This Item


  • TitleHouses of Nelson Hamlin, James Lefferts, D. M. Tredwell, Flatbush
  • Call NumberBRAI_0075
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree large wooden houses behind muddy, unpaved street; house at left rectangular, with flat roof; other two houses with steeply pitched roofs and gables; large pine tree in left foreground; other trees bare; wooden fences setting off houses; street car tracks on road in foreground.
  • Date[187-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed label on verso. 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 -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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.