About This Item

  • TitleNew medical center for borough
  • Call NumberSCHL_0323
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "New medical center for borough--First drawings by Eggers and Higgins, architects, of $10,500,000 science building of State University medical center [now named State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn] in vicinity of Kings County Hospital. With facilities for 800 medical students, building will include lecture halls, labs, dining room and library. Ground is to be broken in a year."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 12 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On recto: "State University of New York Medical Center at New York City; Eggers & Higgins, Architect; Reisner & Urbahn, Associate Architect; June 1, 1951" typeset in lower right corner. On verso: caption stamped: Jun[e] 7, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorPeter A. Juley & Son [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectState University of New York. Health Science Center at Brooklyn
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East Flatbush (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.