About This Item

  • Title[Rendering of Brooklyn Bridge Plaza]
  • Call NumberGOVT_0080
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryArchitectural rendering of improved plaza and proposed neoclassical courthouse in downtown Brooklyn, no longer extent, if ever built. Caption on verso: "Brooklyn Courthouse, as designed under the direction of Bridge Commissioner O'Keefe. This shows how the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza might be made into an ideal civic center. . . . By building the courthouse on this site it would be possible to create a dignified approach to the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge. . . ."
  • Date1913
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 12 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 25, 1913; Brooklyn Daily Eagle label.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Plazas -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown 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.