About This Item

  • TitlePanorama of Borough Hall and the business district, downtown Brooklyn, ca. 1900
  • Call NumberPOST_0095
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Postcard collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view of Brooklyn Borough Hall, showing elevated rail tracks running diaganolly through foreground; trolley cars and pedestrians on Court Street at right; Beaux-Arts building with mansard roof (since demolished) behind Borough Hall at left.
  • Date[1900?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 postcard : black & white ; 4 x 6 in.
  • Genreaerial viewspostcards
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. Correspondence on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Borough Hall (New York, N.Y.) ; Municipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Postcard collection
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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.