About This Item

  • Call NumberBRAI_0018
  • TitleKings County Rural Gazette
  • SummarySmall, one-story wooden structure in Flatbush with decorative shingled roof and sign reading, "Kings County Rural Gazette"; man in formal attire and with hands in pockets leaning against lamppost in front of structure; fence and pruned tree to left of man; church in left background; unpaved road and ditch in foreground.
  • Date[187-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed label on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectNewspaper buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Historic buildings ; Lampposts ; Dirt roads
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/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.
  • FolderGeorge Brainerd photograph collection ; Folder: Brooklyn series