About This Item


  • TitleElks Club
  • Call NumberCLUB_0285
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CLUB 0293), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two close-up,7 exterior views, in different sizes, of a large elk head over the entrance to the Elks Club located at the intersection of Livingston Street and Boerum Place. Caption (0285): "Swathed in ropes, the big elk's head over the entrance of the former Brooklyn Elks Club, now in the process of becoming the new headquarters of the Board of Education, is all set for its last ride."
  • Date1938, 1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0285: grease pencil cropping marks; 0293: cropped and retouched;. Date inscribed on verso: 0285: May 17/39; 0293: Oct. 31/38. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectClubhouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Clubs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.