About This Item

  • TitleBensonhurst Branch of Dime Savings Bank
  • Call NumberBANK_0064
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Newly enlarged building of the Bensonhurst Branch of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn, at 86th St. and 19th Ave., which will be dedicated on Saturday. The new addition provides the bank with another entrance on 86th St. and practically doubles the business handling capacity. the original bank building was opened in September, 1929."
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: June 15/39; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLincoln, F. S.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBank buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Street lighting -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.