About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0069
  • TitleHenry Street, front of house #253 Henry St
  • SummaryView of large townhouse on corner lot in Brooklyn Heights; surface almost entirely covered with ivy except for windows and door; finials on steeply pitched roof; adjacent townhouse at right (partial view) mostly without ivy. Inscription on verso: "Henry Street, front of house #253 Henry St., from middle of Joralemon St. on west building line of Henry St."
  • Date1903
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 8-27-1903. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectRow houses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ivy -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, 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.
  • FolderSubway Construction Photographs; Box 1