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Title Blackwell's Island, part of the workhouse Call Number WILC_0038 Cite As Julius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History Summary View of large stone building in several wings (no longer extant) on what is now Roosevelt Island; saplings and untended lawn in foreground. Date 1892 Format still image Physical Description 1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in. Genre cyanotypes (photographic prints) photographic prints Note Date from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 99.a. Title from inscription below image on recto. Creator Wilcox, Julius Subject Workhouses -- New York (State) -- New York Collection Julius Wilcox photograph collection Place Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) Rights This 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.