POTW: Car barn

Tess Colwell

[Flatbush car barn], ca. 1885, v1972.1.830; Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection, ARC.201; Brooklyn Historical Society. [Flatbush car barn], ca. 1885, v1972.1.830; Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection, ARC.201; Brooklyn Historical Society.
The photo of the week depicts a car barn that once stood at Flatbush and Tilden Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, sometime around 1885. The car barn housed horse-drawn trolleys that carried passengers between Fulton Ferry, Flatbush, Coney Island, and other areas of Brooklyn. Also pictured is James Monell (the small boy with pail), who was the original owner of this photograph and who lived on Erasmus Street in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. If you’re interested in learning more about transportation and development in Flatbush, check out this page from BHS’s digital exhibition, An American Family Grows in Brooklyn: the Lefferts Family Papers.

This photograph comes from the Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection comprised of nearly 1,400 black-and-white photographs taken by various photographers from 1860-1920. The majority of the photographs in this collection depict views of Brooklyn and Suffolk County. To see more photographs from this collection, check out this gallery.

Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images. Interested in seeing even more historic Brooklyn images? Visit our Brooklyn Visual Heritage website here. To search BHS’s entire collection of images, archives, maps, and special collections visit BHS’s Othmer Library Wed-Sat, 1:00-5:00 p.m. library@brooklynhistory.org

 

This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.

 

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