About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0919
  • TitleCornelius Ditmas House
  • SummaryThree-story clapboard house with sloping roof and shuttered windows in Flatlands; grassy lawn with trees and footpath in foreground; barnlike building in left background and railroad embankment in right background.
  • Date[192-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 4 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. "Cornelius Ditmas house, Flatlands Neck, now Kouwenhoven Pl., E. 53rd St., prior to 1776."
  • SubjectDwellings [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses ; Historic buildings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Flatlands: Homes: Ditmas