About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0044
  • TitleBackyards
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0043), some of which may also be described in this new record; Row houses with backyards; large tree in left foreground; many apartment houses in background. Caption: "In one of these backyards is the infinitesimal point which marks the center of New York City. These yards are between rows of houses bordering Reid and Greene Aves. and Van Buren St."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date inscribed: March 26/37. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectBackyards [lctgm] ; Row houses
  • 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
  • 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: Bed. Stuy.: Neighborhoods