About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0078
  • TitleFirst office of The Eagle
  • SummaryDrawing of facade of Brooklyn Daily Eagle, two attached four-story buildings at 39 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn with large sign, "The Eagle," on each.
  • Date[184-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: "Destroyed by fire, Oct. 17, 1841;" Walt Whitman worked here." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn daily eagle ; Newspaper buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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
  • 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: Eagle