About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0013
  • TitleUnion League Club
  • SummaryUnion League Club of Brooklyn, large Romanesque five-story building at Bedford Avenue and Dean Street, designed by P. J. Lauritzen in 1890; buildings on both sides and several pedestrians in foreground. Note: building much later renamed Bhraggs Grant Square Senior Citizens' Center.
  • Date[189-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1896. Title from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorThomson, Edgar S. [photographer]
  • SubjectClubs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsEdgar S. Thomson 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.
  • FolderEdgar S. Thomson photograph collection ; Folder 1