About This Item


  • TitleOut of the past
  • Call NumberNEIG_1205
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryRow of brownstone houses with stoops and iron fences and gates. Caption: "Out of the past...--while more and better housing is a continuing need in Brooklyn, areas often thought of a badly 'blighted' boast clean, well-kept blocks of brownstone homes, such as these on Madison St. near Marcy Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Jun[e] 27, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorTed Castle Magnum Photos
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrownstone buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.