About This Item

  • Title"The Slip," a tenement in Hamilton St
  • Call NumberWILC_0112
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryRow of mostly two-story tenement buildings on street (no longer extent) in lower Manhattan; cobbstone paving on street in foreground; sign for "coal" and "wood" on ground floor of tenement at left.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 45.c. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectTenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceNew York (N.Y.)
  • 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.