About This Item

  • TitleFort Greene from Temple Bar Building
  • Call NumberNEIG_0965
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view. Densely packed residential and commercial buildings in Fort Greene, with smoke stacks, steeples, banners, and advertising signs attached to buildings; elevated train or subway track runs across foreground with train or subway car at bottom left; seven-story commercial cast-iron building and five or six four-story residential/commercial buildings facing elevated track.
  • Date1904
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1904. Title from inscription on verso. On recto: "Brooklyn N.E. from Temple Bar, view toward Navy Yard"; printed in white on bottom right.
  • SubjectChimneys [lctgm] ; Railroads, Elevated
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.