About This Item
- TitleTime-honored
- Call NumberNEIG_0070
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryFacade of abandoned, two-story stucco and shingle house with three dormer windows on front; iron fence along front; man bent over trash barrel and woman with baby carriage sitting on bench in left foreground; residential buildings on all sides. Caption: "Time-honored--Now under care of Park Department, ... Van Pelt Manor house ... at 18th Ave. and 82d St, was built in 1686 by one of Brooklyn's oldest families."
- Date1951
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 25, 1951. On verso: "Frank Lynch from Park Dept. cleaning, picking up papers." Title from caption on verso.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectVan Pelt Manor House ; Abandoned houses ; Baby carriages ; Historic buildings
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.