About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1308
  • TitleVechte-Cortelyou House
  • SummaryA two story stone building with a tile roof and open shuttered and regular windows, with a group of children standing and sitting at a pole in front of door in the center, and a mother with her child in a baby carriage with two girls looking at the child in right foreground.
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. Verso: "Replica of the Vechte-Cortelyou House in the Spring of 1946; used in historical Brooklyn Booklet, 1946."
  • SubjectStone buildings ; Historic buildings ; Roofing, Tile ; Children ; Mothers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceGowanus Canal (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: Gowanus: Homes: Old Stone House