About This Item


  • TitleDown the Meadow Lane, New Lots
  • Call NumberBRAI_0119
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of unpaved road set off by wooden fence receding through farmer's fields into distance; prominent bare tree at right.
  • Date1874
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On verso: date inscribed: Nov. 26, 1874. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum. Scanned image from negative is a stereograph.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectRural roads -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wooden fences -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New Lots (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.