About This Item


  • Call NumberGOVT_0126
  • Title[Former Hall of Records]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GOVT 0121), some of which may also be described in this new record; Identical images of neoclassical building (since destroyed) on Livingston Street and Court Square; "HALL OF RECORDS" inscribed on frieze between second and third floors; flag flying from balustraded roof; busy crowd scene in foreground, with pedestrians crossing street amid traffic; curving trolley tracks in center foreground.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 18, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMunicipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Government: Judiciary: Hall of Records