About This Item

  • TitleCapt. John Schenck homestead
  • Call NumberNEIG_2469
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing: Home of Captain John Schenck in Mill Basin, a small, partially vine-covered, two-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows and colonnade entrance and porch; figure sitting in horse-drawn buggy in right foreground and small building, perhaps shed or barn, in right background.
  • Date[186-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Houses [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Mill Basin (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.