About This Item

  • Call NumberGOVT_0081
  • Title[Coney Island Courthouse]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GOVT 0082), some of which may also be described in this new record; Courthouse, apparently no longer extant, with round tower and corner turret; two automobiles parked at curb; sign on adjacent building on left reads, "2937 Court Hotel'; images identical except for irregular portion missing from left of 0081. Caption on 0081: "Here is the Coney Island courthouse, more than half a cerntury old. Alongside it is the two-story detention pen."
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso of 0081: date inscribed: Jan. 10/39; "Eagle staff photos."
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Prisons -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Government: Judiciary: Coney Island