About This Item
- Title[Heavily retouched image of Kings County Courthouse]
- Call NumberGOVT_0177
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryView from right of domed, neo-classical Kings County Courthouse on Joralemon and Fulton Streets (subsequently demolished); pedestrians in foreground; whimsical retouching shows supports, cracks, seams, etc., as if to suggest imminent collapse or haunted house.
- Date1915
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 7 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 16, 1915; Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
- SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Domes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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.