About This Item

  • Call NumberAUST_0287
  • TitleEngel's hotel
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (AUST 0286), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of abandoned two-story clapboard house on Kings Highway near Flatbush Avenue; portico in state of collapse and window shutters broken; 0286 shows empty field in background and outhouse or tollhouse at left; 0287 shows house behind two leafy trees and unpaved road in foreground curving to right.
  • Date1906
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle and date (5/13/1906) from Austin Collection list. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorAustin, Daniel Berry
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hotels -- New York (State) -- New York ; Abandoned buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsDaniel Berry Austin photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.