About This Item

  • Call NumberGOVT_0171
  • Title[Police barricade before courthouse]
  • SummaryClose-up view of wooden barricade ("POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS") before entrance to Kings County Courthouse on Joralemon and Fulton Streets (subsequently demolished); iron gates between rusticated entrance column; sign on column at right reads, "SUPREME COURT."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: Nov. 10, 1950.
  • SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York ; Barricades -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Kings County Supreme Court: 1865 Courthouse: General