About This Item

  • TitleRoosevelt Savings Bank
  • Call NumberBANK_0276
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BANK 0217, BANK 0275), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three exterior views, in two different sizes, of the Roosevelt Savings Bank located at the intersection of Gates Avenue and Broadway. 0275 is an architectural rendering. 0217 includes two cars and several pedestrians. 0276 includes a large sign over the entrance, a portion of which reads, "Come in Now and Enroll for 1930 in Our New Christmas Club." 0276 is not dated, but the date is presumably 1929.
  • Date[1929?], 1941, 1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • Note0217 (9 x 7 in.) and 0275 are retouched. Date inscribed on verso: 0217: Oct. 26/41; 0275: 3/5/51. Title from inscriptions on versos of 0217 and 0275.
  • SubjectBank buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.