About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1007
  • TitleSchenck house bedroom
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1008), some of which may also be described in this new record; Portion of bedroom in Schenck house: 1007: bed in alcove, highboy chest and small round table; 1008: Highboy chest, smaller chest/secretary, straight-back chair, window, and framed picture. Note: house originally located in Canarsie Park, Flatlands, and later moved to the Brooklyn Museum.
  • Date[1940?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: 1007: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences stamp; 1008: Brooklyn Museum stamp. On verso: "built before 1775 and remodeled about 1800." Title from typed label on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Museum
  • SubjectBedroom furniture ; Bedrooms ; Historic buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (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: Flatlands: Homes: Schenck house (Canarsie Park)