About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0923
  • TitleFlatlands Public School
  • SummaryFacade of small, wood-frame building with tree, wood fence and yard in foreground, smaller building on far right, and other buildings in far left background. Caption: "Long ago--but not far away--the Flatlands Public School stood, a decade before the consolidation of Brooklyn and New York, at Flatbush Ave. and Alton Place, in the old Town of Flatbush."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Aug. 31, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFences ; Historic buildings ; Public schools ; Wooden-frame buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (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: Flatlands: Flatlands Public School