About This Item

  • TitleDilapitaded tenement, adjoining the Tabernacle, purchased and converted into a People's Palace
  • Call NumberWILC_0173
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo-story wooden frame building with pediment and off-center doorway at unknown location in Manhattan; two men standing before building looking into camera; lettering over doorwary reads, "People's Palace"; cobblestone and trolley tracks in foreground.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 5 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 53.b. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectWooden-frame buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceNew 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.