About This Item

  • Title[Aerial view from roof of Park Street tenement]
  • Call NumberWILC_0156
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view of residential section, taken from a roof on Park Street, showing sections of Baxter Street, Bayard Street, Mulberry Street, and Park Street. Image includes laundry hanging on several tenement building clotheslines. Note: Park Street does not exist in Manhattan at the time of cataloging.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 44b. Title from inscription below image on recto; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectClotheslines -- New York (State) -- New York ; Laundry -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceNew York (N.Y.)
  • 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.