About This Item


  • TitleGarden apartment
  • Call NumberNEIG_2050
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryClose-up of assorted debris (overturned bathtub, refrigerator, broken chair, etc.), with scattered ailanthus trees and seedlings; wooden fence and clothesline at left. Caption: "Garden apartment -- View from rear windows of house at 73 Maujer St. shows surroundings which buyer can secure for himself if he is astute enough to snap up this sale. State of back yard roughly corresponds to state of house. Further information will be furnished prospective buyers on request."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 24, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRefuse and refuse disposal ; Backyards [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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.