About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0364
  • TitleGibb Mansion
  • SummaryFacade of three-story house with front porch and widow's walk; iron fence (and gate) along front and two trees (one large, one small) in foreground.
  • Date1919
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "Ye Colonial Studio" printed in black ink in lower left. On verso: date inscribed: Oct. 26/19; photographer's stamp. On verso: "Winter Convalescent Home;" "Leased by National League for Woman's Service for convalescent home." Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorColonial Studio
  • SubjectDwellings ; Mansions
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (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: Bed. Stuy.: Homes