About This Item
- TitleNew Public School 3
- Call NumberSCHL_1229
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (SCHL 1230), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption: "To replace Brooklyn's 'worst' school--Architect's drawing shows how new Public School 3 ... will look. Present structure has been widely condemned as a firetrap and eyesore." Note: Former building was located at Bedford Avenue and Hancock Street.
- Date1947
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
- Note1229 and 1230 are identical. 1230: Grease pencil cropping marks. On recto (1229): "School no. 3, Brooklyn, New York; Chapman, Studds & Evans, architects" printed in black in lower right. On verso (1229): typed caption: "... new Public School 3, Brooklyn, to be erected at Franklin and Jefferson Avenues in the Bedford Stuyvesant section ... Designed by Chapman, Studds and Evans, the new building will provide accommodations for 1,569 pupils and will cost $1,250,000." On verso (1230): date stamped: Nov. 19, 1947. Title from inscription on verso of 1230.
- SubjectElementary school buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (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.