About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0001
  • TitleBarren Island houses
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0004), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of several small, dilapidated, one-story, wooden-frame houses on Barren Island. Residents were evicted and houses demolished in 1939 when Belt Parkway was constructed. One of the images is not dated.
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0004: cropped: 6 x 10 in.; on verso: date inscribed: March 14/36. Title from inscription on verso of 0004.
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationBarren Island (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: Barren Island