About This Item

  • Title[Brooklyn Heights overlook]
  • Call NumberNEIG_0261
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryEtching.Tree-lined, residential street in Brooklyn Heights terminating in overlook with iron railing and bench; four figures on or near bench; figure on sidewalk in right foreground; portions of houses on left and right; ship masts from harbor and Manhattan skyscrapers in background.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genreetchings (prints)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 6, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; Brooklyn Central Museum stamp. Title supplied by cataloger. On verso: "Printed by Works Projects Administration," (stamp).
  • CreatorBrooklyn Central Museum
  • SubjectDwellings [lctgm] ; Streets ; Masts and rigging
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.