About This Item

  • TitleBushwick Village Square
  • Call NumberNEIG_0421
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryRendering (lithograph?) of Bushwick Village Square with church in center, Bushwick Hotel in left foreground, several small houses, several trees, two pedestrians (man and woman), and signpost ("to Newtown") in right foreground. (It is assumed that rendering represents Bushwick ca. 1654.).
  • Date1906, 1929
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: dates inscribed: "printed Nov. 10, 1906" and March 28/29. On verso: "The Bushwick Hotel at the left and a signpost reading 'to Newtown' at the right, This is about where Bushwick Avenue runs into Wood Point [Woodpoint] Road near Conselya Street; organized in 1654." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectChurch buildings ; Hotels ; Villages
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.