About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_0653
  • TitleBlock front on Livingston
  • SummaryFacade of large retail store ("Cohn's Trimmings") at intersection of Livingston Street and Hoyt Street with attached buildings (signs in left background: "Berlitz School" and "Ivers-Pond Pianos; Chandler Ebel Music Co.") on both sides, cobblestone street with trolley tracks in foreground, parked automobile and policeman in left background, several parked automobiles and pedestrian (man) in right background.
  • Date1925
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteBlack grease pencil cropping marks. On verso; date inscribed: Feb. 15/25; photographer's stamp. On verso: "Hoyt & Schermerhorn St.; to be sold at auction by Jere Johnson Jr. Co. on Feb'y 17." Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorSmith, Joseph
  • SubjectAutomobiles ; Police ; Stores, Retail ; Streets
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle 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.
  • FolderFolder: Downtown Brooklyn: Livingston Street