About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0454
  • TitleMaxwell Cottage
  • SummaryFacade of Maxwell Cottage, a Children's Aid Society home in Coney Island: three-story shingle house with dormer windows on top floor and wrap-around porches on first two floors.
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1905. On verso: "Children's Aid, Coney Island." Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectChildren's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) ; Children -- Institutional care ; Orphanages
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Coney Island: Children's homes