About This Item
- TitleBefore
- Call NumberNEIG_0069
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryFacade of two-story stucco and shingle house with three dormer windows on front; sign at left of doorway, front yard, iron fence along side, two women sitting at left of doorway, small girl standing inside fence in right foreground, branches of large tree on far left, and unidentifiable building on far right. Caption: "Before--Tenantless for a decade, the old Van Pelt Manor House at 81st St. and 18th Ave. was built in 1686 and in good repair when this picture was taken in 1938."
- Date1938, published 1952
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 9 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: nov. 8/38; date stamped: Nov. 16, 1952. Title from caption on verso.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectVan Pelt Manor House ; 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.