About This Item

  • TitleCentral Park bears
  • Call NumberBRAI_0256
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BRAI 0255), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two close-up views of a bear in a cage in the zoo in Central Park.
  • Date[187-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on recto of 0255. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectBears -- New York (State) -- New York ; Zoos -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceCentral Park (New York, N.Y.)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.