Title: | [Heavily retouched image of Kings County Courthouse] |
Description: | View from right of domed, neo-classical Kings County Courthouse on Joralemon and Fulton Streets (subsequently demolished); pedestrians in foreground; whimsical retouching shows supports, cracks, seams, etc., as if to suggest imminent collapse or haunted house. |
Date: | 1915 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn daily eagle. |
More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 16, 1915; Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Government [4]
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Subject: |
Courthouses [5] Domes [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 0177 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/5c5d5323a3fc6a68d3f0eb807354bb04&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Downtown+Brooklyn+%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/d/Domes
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture