About This Item


  • TitleEastern Parkway & Bedford Ave. looking east
  • Call NumberNEIG_1748
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFrederick MacMonnies' equestrian statue of Civil War General Henry Warner Slocum (later moved to Grand Army Plaza) at Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue; lampposts, sidewalk, roadway, and patches of melting snow in foreground; pedestrians, various buildings, automobile, and tree-lined allee in background.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar. 29, 1914. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectSlocum, Henry Warner, 1826-1894 ; MacMonnies, Frederick William, 1863-1937 ; Equestrian statues ; Parkways
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.