About This Item
- TitleMollie Fancher
- Call NumberPORT_0377
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0375), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Mollie Fancher, Brooklyn's famous invalid, sometimes known as the "Brooklyn Enigma," lying in bed. She remained in bed for fifty years.
- Date1915, 1916
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- NoteOn recto of 0377: "Photo by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y." printed in lower right. On verso: Eagle stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
- SubjectFancher, Mary J., b. 1848 ; Invalids -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (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.