About This Item
- TitleOld Tower House
- Call NumberNEIG_1696
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1695), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views, in different sizes, of the home of Asa B. Richardson, also known as Tower House, at 300-306 8th Street near 5th Avenue, a large, four-story house with round towerand iron fence along front. Both images include portions of other houses.
- Date1910, 1913
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: 1695: date stamped: Feb. 9, 1913; Brooklyn Daily Eagle label; 1696: date stamped: May 22, 1910; Eagle stamp. 1695 has slight exposure defect along bottom; torn in lower right corner. Title from inscription on verso of 1695.
- SubjectHouses -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Round towers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Towers -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (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.