About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0111
  • TitleRamshackle block
  • SummaryCaption: "Ramshackle block [of small wood-frame houses] in Coney Island is specimen of housing of a wornout past which is clogging borough's progress." Image includes wood fence and pile of debris in foreground.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Dec. 14, 1952. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectFences -- New York (State) -- New York ; Houses -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Huts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Slums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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: Coney Island: Housing