About This Item
- TitleReal estate library
- Call NumberGOVT_0125
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryMan in suit reaching for volume in stacks of former Hall of Records (since destroyed) on Livingston Street and Court Square. Caption: "Real Estate Library: Piled up like stacks of wheat cakes are volumes in the record room of the Register's office in the Hall of Records, containing real estate conveyance and mortgage data. John W. Crowley, Assistant Deputy Register in charge, is reaching for one of the heavy volumes."
- Date1946
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: May 12, 1946; "Eagle staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectMunicipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York ; Archivists -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public records -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown 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.