Blackwell's Island, Insane Asylum, Acute Ward

Blackwell's Island, Insane Asylum, Acute Ward
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Title: Blackwell's Island, Insane Asylum, Acute Ward
Description:

View of hospital building (since destroyed except for octagonal tower, visible at left) on what is now Roosevelt Island; large rectangular lawn in foreground.

Date: 1892
Location: Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Wilcox, Julius.
More Details: Date from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images.
Original cyanotype image has number: 98.d.
Title from inscription below image on recto.
Collection: Julius Wilcox
Subject: Psychiatric hospitals
Lost architecture
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: WILC 0031