About This Item
- TitleBlackwell's Island, Insane Asylum, from lower end
- Call NumberWILC_0032
- Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryView of hospital building (since destroyed except for octagonal tower visible in background) on what is now Roosevelt Island; gravel path with flagpole in foreground; allée of trees at right.
- Date1892
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
- Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
- NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 98.c. Title from inscription below image on recto.
- CreatorWilcox, Julius
- SubjectPsychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
- PlaceRoosevelt Island (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.