About This Item


  • TitleThe squatters
  • Call NumberNEIG_2277
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing of several shacks on 42nd Street looking west from Second Avenue in 1869 with several wagons, people, and animals (goats, chickens, pigs) in foreground.
  • Date1869
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectHuts ; Squatter settlements ; Squatters
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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.