About This Item


  • TitleU.S. Title Inst. Building
  • Call NumberUNDE_0097
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwenty-two-story office building on Court Street, opposite Borough Hall (partly visible in left foreground); "United States Title Guaranty Company" inscribed on frieze over second floor; smaller, adjacent office building to left; building across street at right under construction, with scaffolding; pedestrians and automobiles on plaza and street in foreground; statue of Henry Ward Beecher in center foreground.
  • Date1928
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title and date from inscription on recto. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectOffice buildings ; Skyscrapers
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.