About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2265
  • TitleFulton St
  • SummaryCaption: "Here is Fulton St., at City Hall, as it looked for several years before the elevated was built in the early '80's, when Brooklyn was a city independent of Manhattan. It was then, as now, the principal business street of Brooklyn;" intersecting streets with trolley tracks and several horse-drawn vehicles, commercial/residential buildings with shops on street level and several pedestrians on sidewalk at left, (large sign on building in left foreground: "Bank, Oyster House") and small park and municipal buildings in right background.
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date inscribed: Feb. 27/38. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectMunicipal buildings ; Parks ; Signs and signboards ; Streets
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Downtown Brooklyn: Borough Hall Section: 19th century