About This Item

  • Title[Rendering of Mays Department Store]
  • Call NumberDEPT_0086
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTyped label on verso: "Sketch of the new $1,250,000 branch store that Mays Department Store of Brooklyn will erect in the Glen Oaks Shopping Center on Union Turnpike between 255th and 260th Streets, Bellerose, Queens. Planned by Leo V. Berger, architect, the new store will contain 82,000 square feet on three selling floors and provide parking facilities for 600 cars."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 12 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date typed: April 12, 1949.
  • SubjectDepartment stores -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationBellerose (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.