About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0230
  • TitleMartens
  • SummaryTwo-story, hexagonal martin house with conical roof seen from below; one martin perching at right, two more peering from hole at left; blur of trees in background.
  • Date[1916?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 4 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteInscription on verso: "Picture by Dr. Frank Overton." Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorOverton, Frank, 1867- [photographer]
  • SubjectBirds ; Birdhouses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Eagle: Contests