About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0080
  • TitleLower Fulton Street near City Hall
  • SummaryView of section of Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn, later known as Borough Hall, with large, six-story commercial building and much smaller building with flag flying from roof in background and one pedestrian, statue of Henry Ward Beecher, and train on elevated tracks in foreground.
  • Date1896
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorThomson, Edgar S. [photographer]
  • SubjectCommercial buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads, Elevated -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsEdgar S. Thomson 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.
  • FolderEdgar S. Thomson photograph collection ; Folder 4