About This Item


  • TitleVan Pelt Manor
  • Call NumberNEIG_0078
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of two-story stucco and shingle house with three dormer windows on front: Van Pelt Manor House, 81st Street and 18th Avenue; iron fence along front and side; young man and young woman looking at house, front; two women and small boy sitting on bench in foreground; baby carriage at left of bench and small boy sitting in left foreground; small bush and hedges in foreground; residential building in left background and commercial (?) building with advertisement on wall ("Treadeasy Shoe") on far right.
  • Date[194-]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: "Eagle." Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectVan Pelt Manor House ; Historic buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBensonhurst (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.