About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0912
  • TitleOld Ditmas house
  • SummaryThree-story clapboard house with sloping roof and shuttered windows in Flatlands; portion of six-story apartment house in left background, two parked automobiles in foreground, and portion of brick building in right background. Caption: "An old Ditmas house that was still standing at 150 Amersfort Pl., in the Winter of 1945-46. It is almost on the campus of Brooklyn College and some of the professors were talking about acquiring this house for a faculty club."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Oct. 13, 1946; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDwellings [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses ; Historic 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: Homes: Ditmas