Title: | [Coney Island Courthouse] |
Description: | Courthouse, apparently no longer extant, with round tower and corner turret; two automobiles parked at curb; sign on adjacent building on left reads, "2937 Court Hotel'; images identical except for irregular portion missing from left of 0081. Caption: "Here is the Coney Island courthouse, more than half a cerntury old. Alongside it is the two-story detention pen." |
Date: | 1939 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn daily eagle. |
More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 10/39; "Eagle staff photos." |
Collection: | Government [4]
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Subject: |
Courthouses [5] Prisons [6] Lost architecture [7] |
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: | GOVT 0081 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/97d19b3ddab104e6847764fe0ee253de&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Coney+Island+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Government
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Courthouses
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Prisons
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture