About This Item

  • Call NumberOGDE_0039
  • TitleLefferts House, 563 Flatbush Avenue
  • SummaryTwo-story, wooden-frame house with dormer windows, preserved as historic landmark in Prospect Park; topiary or weeping trees and bushes on property; trolley tracks and cobblestone paving on street in foreground.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. Inscribed on verso: "Ogden." On verso: date inscribed: July 20, 1914. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorOgden, George S.
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsGeorge S. Ogden 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.
  • FolderOgden: Folder 5