About This Item


  • Call NumberSCHL_1534
  • TitlePS 85
  • SummaryFacade of PS 85, a large, four-story, brick building located on Evergreen Avenue and Covert Street, with piles of building materials and debris in left foreground, portion of adjacent building in far left background, and group of schoolboys standing in right foreground.
  • Date1906
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "P.S. 85, Brooklyn; addit., front, S.E.; Aug. 24th, 1906" printed in white in lower left. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectPublic School 85 (New York, N.Y.) ; Elementary school buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (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: Schools: Public: P.S. #85