About This Item
- Title[Three gravestones]
- Call NumberAUST_0317
- Cite AsDaniel Berry Austin photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (AUST 0315, AUST 0316), some of which may also be described in this new record; Close-ups of three rustic gravestones, all surrounded by ferns, bushes, and grasses, and all with carved angel heads, probably in cemeteries or fields in Gravesend; inscription on 0315 in Dutch ("Tot Gedaghten ..."); inscription on 0316 in English ("Here Lyes the Body of ..."); inscription on 317 apparently also in Dutch, though less legible ("Hier Leyt ...").
- Date1899
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger; date (7/30/1899) from Austin Collection list. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
- CreatorAustin, Daniel Berry
- SubjectSepulchral monuments -- New York (State) -- New York
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gravesend (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.