About This Item


  • Title13th Regiment Armory
  • Call NumberTHOM_0027
  • Cite AsEdgar S. Thomson photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Summary13th Regiment Armory, a large fortress-like building at 357 Sumner Avenue between Jefferson Avenue and Putnam Avenue, designed by Rudolph L. Daus in 1894, with section of cobblestone street with trolley tracks, two pedestrians, and portion of building in foreground, and portions of other buildings in far left background.
  • Date1895
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1895. Title from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorThomson, Edgar S. [photographer]
  • SubjectArmories -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)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.