About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_1220
  • TitleNew school for Brownsville
  • SummaryArchitectural rendering: caption: "New school for Brownsville--The new Col. David Marcus [later renamed Esther Clarke Hunter] Junior H. S. will start going up at Sutter ave. and Chestnut [Chester] St. around the end of the year. The T-shaped school, to be known numerically as Junior H. S. 263 ... will cost an estimated $2,900,000."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On recto: "J. Floyd Hewell" printed in lower left and "Emery Roth & Sons, architects" printed in lower right corner. On verso: caption stamped: Oct. 4, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectJunior High School 263 (New York, N.Y.) ; Junior high schools -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Schools: Public: J.H.S. #263