About This Item


  • TitlePublic School 163
  • Call NumberSCHL_1581
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of PS 163, a large, five-story, brick building located at 1664 Benson Avenue, with iron fence along front and side and utility pole on unpaved street in foreground.
  • Date1909
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Esp[t] 2, 1909; Eagle stamp. Overexposed one-inch strip across bottom of image. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Daily Eagle
  • SubjectPublic School 163 (New York, N.Y.) ; Elementary school buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBensonhurst (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.