Ramshackle block

Ramshackle block
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Title: Ramshackle block
Description:

Caption: "Ramshackle block [of small wood-frame houses] in Coney Island is specimen of housing of a wornout past which is clogging borough's progress." Image includes wood fence and pile of debris in foreground.

Date: 1892
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Date stamped on verso: Dec. 14, 1952.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Fences
Houses
Huts
Slums
Wooden-frame houses
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: CONE 0111