About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0577
  • Title[St. John's Home for Boys]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (SWEL 0580, SWEL 0581, SWEL 0578, SWEL 0579), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five exterior views, in two different sizes, of St. John's Home for Boys, an orphanage located at Albany Avenue and St. Mark's Avenue. Four of the images are not dated.
  • Date1909
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0577, 0580: 7 x 9 in. On verso of 0580: date stamped: Oct. 16, 1909; Eagle stamp; inscription: "St. John's Orphan Asylum." Title from inscription on verso of 0577; supplied partially by cataloger..
  • SubjectSt. John's Home for Boys (New York, N.Y.) ; Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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: Social welfare: Orphanages: Saint John's Home for Boys: Building