About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1750
  • TitleWebster factory
  • SummaryFive story brick factory building with broken windows and for sale signs at intersection of Fifth and Atlantic Avenues; Model-T type automobile parked at curb in right background; trolley tracks and lamppost in foreground; adjacent buildings to left and right.
  • Date1929
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 9 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: April 7/29. Title from inscription on recto. Retouched; 7 x 9 photographic image mounted on partially preserved 9 x 9 cardboard frame.
  • SubjectFactories ; Street railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ford Model T automobile ; Lampposts
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBoerum Hill (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, 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.
  • FolderFolder: Boerum Hill: Webster Factory