About This Item

  • TitleBlackwell's Island, Insane Asylum, from upper end
  • Call NumberWILC_0036
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of hospital building, since destroyed except for octagonal dome partly visible in background, on what is now Roosevelt Island; trees in foreground obscuring most of building.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 99.b. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectPsychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceRoosevelt Island (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.