About This Item

  • TitleFlatiron Building
  • Call NumberFROG_0004
  • Cite AsRaoul Froger-Doudement photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (FROG 0028, FROG 0005), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two images of the Flatiron Building, a 20-story limestone office building built at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 23rd Street in 1902 by Daniel H. Burnham, with street and several horse-drawn vehicles in foreground and several other buildings on both sides and in background; 0004 and 0028 show building under construction.
  • Date[ca. 1900]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum of Art; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum of Art.
  • CreatorFroger-Doudement, Raoul [photographer]
  • SubjectBuilding construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Office buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceNew 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.