About This Item

  • Call NumberBRAI_0025
  • TitleBergen House
  • SummaryTwo-story shingle house in Flatbush with small, columned porch and four chimneys; window shutters closed on facade; side wing (right) longer than central wing (left) and with slightly lower roof line; row of large, bare trees along sidewalk and wooden fence before house; other trees in yard behind fence; trolley or train tracks on unpaved road in foreground.
  • Date[187-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed label on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses ; Historic buildings ; Street-railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/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.
  • FolderGeorge Brainerd photograph collection ; Folder: Brooklyn series