About This Item

  • Call NumberBRAI_0146
  • TitleCity Hall
  • SummaryView of City Hall in Downtown Brooklyn. Image includes City Hall Park in foreground and partial view of Court House in left background.
  • Date[ca 1874]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsstereographs
  • NoteTitle and date, "about 1874," from typed label on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum. Scanned image from negative is a stereograph.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectCity halls -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd 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.