About This Item


  • TitleWallabout Market
  • Call NumberNEIG_1620
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1626, NEIG 1617), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three aerial views of Wallabout Market. Caption (1620): "Flushing Ave., looking east from Washington Ave., showing the long and ever-present queue of stalled traffic [including three trolley cars] ... Wallabout Market, now deserted, is shown in foreground." 1626 includes several trucks and one horse-drawn wagon.
  • Date1904-1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note1617: on recto: "Wallabout Market and U. S. Marine Hospital" printed in white in lower left. Title from inscription on verso of 1626.
  • SubjectHorse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Markets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trolley cars -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trucks -- 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.