About This Item

  • Title[Kings County Rural Gazette building]
  • Call NumberWORK_0572
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySmall, one-story wooden structure in Flatbush with decorative shingled roof that once housed the offices of a newspaper published from 1872 to 1880; sign at roof line reading, "Kings County Rural Gazette," ; man in formal attire and with hands in pockets leaning against lamppost in front of structure; fence and pruned tree to left of man; unpaved road in foreground.
  • Date[187-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrainard, George Bradford, 1845-1887
  • SubjectNewspaper buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Historic buildings ; Lampposts ; Dirt roads
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • 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.