About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2257
  • TitleBorough Hall
  • SummaryCaption: "This drawing of Borough Hall won a $25 prize offered by Borough President Ingersoll to Pratt Institute Art School students for a design for his 1936 Christmas card. ... Mr. Ingersoll selected the work of Hugh Laidman, senior, of Niagara Falls."
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 11 x 6 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Dec. 22/36. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Borough Hall (New York, N.Y.)
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Borough Hall: Building: Renderings