About This Item


  • TitleBrooklyn Tel. Building
  • Call NumberUNDE_0120
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (UNDE 0119, UNDE 0118), some of which may also be described in this new record; Aerial views. Boxy, twenty-five or twenty-six story office building apparently in Fort Greene, with setbacks and Art Deco stylings seen from three slightly different perspectives.
  • Date1931-1932
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title from inscription on recto of 0118; dates from recto. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectOffice buildings
  • 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.