About This Item

  • Call NumberLEWI_0014
  • TitleBarnum Circus
  • SummaryBarnum & Bailey Circus tent with sign, "To the big show, main entrance," at Broadway and Halsey Street with woman standing on lawn in far right foreground and many other people standing in background.
  • Date1902
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1902. Title from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorLewis, H. S. [photographer]
  • SubjectCircus -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsH. S. Lewis photograph collection, 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.
  • FolderH. S. Lewis photograph collection