About This Item

  • TitleOld New Lots
  • Call NumberNEIG_0461
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of small, three-story wood-frame house with attached shed (?) with several benches on sidewalk in foreground, lamp on post on left, and large trees on both sides. Caption: "Old New Lots--Still standing as reminders of the original Dutch settlers in New Lots are famous landmarks such as the Schenck Homestead ... Built in 1760, the Isaac Cornel Schenck home still stands on Jamaica Ave., near Cleveland St."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Feb. 25, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBenches ; Historic buildings ; Dwellings [lctgm] ; Lamps ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cypress Hills (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.