About This Item

  • Call NumberUNDE_0075
  • TitleBorough Hall
  • SummaryView of Borough Hall from busy intersection, with many pedestrians on street and sidewalks; streetcar tracks on road, streetcar wires overhead; portion of domed County Courthouse building (demolished) behind Borough Hall in left background; other buildings along Court Street in right background; statue of Henry Ward Beecher on plaza before Borough Hall.
  • Date1913
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title from inscription on recto; date from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectBrooklyn Borough Hall (New York, N.Y.) ; Pedestrians ; Plazas ; Street-railroads
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/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.
  • FolderIrving I. Underhill photograph collection