About This Item

  • TitleBrooklyn Kings County Penitentiary
  • Call NumberAUST_0027
  • Cite AsDaniel Berry Austin photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (AUST 0026), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two stereoscopic views of castle-like prison in Crown Heights (since demolished) with patches of snow in foreground; 0026 shows detail of closed entrance portal between two towers at Rogers Avenue; 0027 shows longer view of main entrance behind stairs on Crown Street.
  • Date1907
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsstereographs
  • NoteTitle from Austin Collection list. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorAustin, Daniel Berry
  • SubjectPrisons -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.