Blackwell's Island, Insane Asylum, from lower end
| Title: | Blackwell's Island, Insane Asylum, from lower end |
| Description: | View of hospital building (since destroyed except for octagonal tower visible in background) on what is now Roosevelt Island; gravel path with flagpole in foreground; allée of trees at right. |
| 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.c. Title from inscription below image on recto. |
| Collection: | Julius Wilcox
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| 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 0032 |





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