About This Item


  • TitleGymnasium of Fontbonne Hall
  • Call NumberSCHL_0446
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0449), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views, in different sizes, of the facade of the gymnasium of a private school, Fontbonne Hall, a small, chapel-like building with four Doric columns, three doorways, and tower with cross on top, located on Shore Road between Third Avenue and 99th Street; "Fontbonne Hall" inscribed above entrance.
  • Date1940, 1966
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0446 is cropped. Dates stamped on versos: 0446: Sep[t] 30, 1940; 0449: Apr. 27, 1966. Title from caption on verso of 0446.
  • SubjectFontbonne Hall (New York, N.Y.) ; Gymnasiums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Private schools -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (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.