About This Item

  • Call NumberOGDE_0044
  • TitleVan Pelt Manor mile stone, erected 1741
  • SummaryClose-up of milestone before sidewalk and picket fence at 81st Street and 18th Avenue; manor house with portico and dormer windows partly visible behind fence; milestone reads in part, "10 1/2 Mile to N York / Ferry This Road / To Jamaica 1.5 Mile."
  • 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.
  • SubjectMilestones -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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 6