About This Item


  • TitleOld Walden Home
  • Call NumberNEIG_0362
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of partially vine-covered, three-story wood house with dormer window; wood fence along side, tree on far right, and adjacent house on far left. Caption: "Old Walden Home, 37 Downing Street, built over fifty years ago, to be razed in a few days."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 29, 1912. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectDwellings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.