About This Item

  • TitleWilliamsburg Bank Building
  • Call NumberBANK_0257
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BANK 0249, BANK 0258, BANK 0260, BANK 0253, BANK 0250, BANK 0251, BANK 0256, BANK 0254, BANK 0255), some of which may also be described in this new record; Ten exterior views, in several different sizes, of the Williamburg Savings Bank building located at 1 Hanson Place. 0251, 0253, 0255, and 0257 are night photographs.
  • Date1929, 1938, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1964, 1965
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description10 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsnight photographyphotographic prints
  • Note0253, 0255, 0258: grease pencil cropping marks; 0249, 0255, 0257, 0258: retouched. On verso: 0249: date inscribed: Pct. 26/41; 0251: date stamped: Apr.10, 1952;Brooklyn Eagle stamp; 0252: date stamped: Apr.27, 1965; 0253: date stamped: Apr. 11, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; 0254: date stamped: Jan.6, 1954; 0255: date stamped: Apr. 16, 1954; 0256: date stamped: Apr.27, 1965; ; 0257: date stamped: Mar.23, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; 0258: date inscribed: 1938; 0260: date inscribed: 1929; photographer's stamp ("Wurts Brothers"). 0249 and 0258 are identical, but 0258 is slightly cropped at the top. Title from caption on verso of 0255.
  • SubjectBank buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.