About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_0967
  • Title475 Adelphi Street
  • SummaryBackyard of 475 Adelphi Street with back view of stone, shed-like building, brick house with shutters and fire escape, and portion of wood-frame house with shutters; several dilapidated structures which are presumably outhouses and sheds, two stacked metal buckets on top of metal barrel, and wheelbarrow.
  • Date1935, 1966
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "475 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.; outhouses & sheds on north side of yard between front building & rear building; view looking N.E., camera near S.W. corner backyard. May 12, 1935" printed in white on bottom. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 3, 1966; photographer's stamp. Title from inscription on recto.
  • CreatorWurts Brothers
  • SubjectBackyards ; Outhouses ; Sheds [lctgm] ; Wheelbarrows
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Fort Green: Housing