About This Item

  • TitleView from Brooklyn Bridge toward Borough Hall showing proposed new Court House in the distance
  • Call NumberGOVT_0061
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GOVT 0057), some of which may also be described in this new record; Architectural rendering showing proposed develpments in downtown Brooklyn; central court house apparently never built; images identical except for size (0057: 10 x 8 in.; 0061: 9 x 6 in.), tonality, and cropping; 0057 has circle drawn over image.
  • Date1913
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteTitle from label on recto of 0061. Date on label of recto of 0057: June 1913. On recto of 0057: "E. H. Bennett, Architect."
  • CreatorBennett, E. H.
  • SubjectMunicipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Unbuilt architectural projects -- New York (State) -- New York ; Plazas -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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.