About This Item


  • TitleBergen House, Bergen Beach . . . Flatlands, Brooklyn
  • Call NumberAUST_0063
  • Cite AsDaniel Berry Austin photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (AUST 0066, AUST 0067, AUST 0064, AUST 0065), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five stereoscopic views of wooden-frame house with four dormer windows, apparently abandoned; 0063 shows rope hanging in loop from branch of tree in foreground and small wooden fence at right; 0064 shows house (left) behind large forking tree in right foreground; 0065 shows house behind grassy lawn with several small trees; 0066 shows path or unpaved road before house and grassy lawn before path; 0067 shows back of house, with one small tree growing in grassy lawn.
  • Date[190-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsstereographs
  • NoteTitle from Austin Collection list. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorAustin, Daniel Berry
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Abandoned houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.