About This Item


  • Call NumberHOSP_0132
  • TitleBrooklyn State Hospital
  • SummaryExterior, partial view of Brooklyn State Hospital building. Inscription on verso: "Fire hazard -- fire excape, passing windows where smoke & flame would come out, preventing persons, on any floor above which a fire ocurred, from escaping." The image is not dated.
  • Date[193-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption stamped on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn State Hospital (New York, N.Y.) ; Fire escapes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East Flatbush (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: Hospitals: Brooklyn State Hospital