About This Item

  • Call NumberBRAI_0024
  • TitleHess House, Flatbush
  • SummaryTwo-story wooden house with sloping roof and projecting eave in front; partial view of Victorian mansion with elaborate mansard roof at left behind first house; in right backround, three-story wooden house with wraparound porch and large sign (first word illegible, second word "House") between second and third stories; wooden fences and bare trees along street; unpaved road in foreground.
  • Date[187-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed label on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses ; Historic buildings
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd 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.
  • FolderGeorge Brainerd photograph collection ; Folder: Brooklyn series