About This Item


  • Call NumberOSOS_0538
  • TitleStudio portrait of infant boy in christening gown.
  • SummaryPortrait taken of Richard Herkimer Esselstyn, resident of 96 Lincoln Place, on the date of his baptism. Frame stamped with: "[Dana?], Carbonette, 1895, NewYork, Brooklyn, Pittsburg". Recto: "FULTON AND BOND STS. BROOKLYN, N.Y. CARBONETTE OUR 1895 PRODUCTION."
  • Date1895-06-14
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographsstudio portraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original photograph, [dimensions unknown], digitized on March 6, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Gretchen VanEsselstyn at Green-Wood Cemetery. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectBoys ; Infants ; Christening gowns ; Baptism
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.