About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0452
  • TitleCheever House
  • SummaryFacade of large, three-story shingle house with large lawn in foreground. Caption: "Cheever House, the main building of the seaside estate of the Children's Aid Society."
  • Date[190-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 4 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped into oval shape. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectChildren's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) ; Children -- Institutional care ; Orphanages
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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: Coney Island: Children's homes