About This Item


  • TitleBrooklyn Edison Bldg
  • Call NumberUNDE_0095
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view of ten-story office building with large arched windows on ground floor; ground floor and second floor rusticated; ninth and tenth floors recessed; American flag hanging above ornamental escutcheon on second floor; automobiles, streetlamps, and pedestrians on street and sidewalks; other buildings(including portion of Manhattan bridge at right) in background.
  • Date1924
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title and date from inscription on recto. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectOffice buildings
  • 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.