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'Brooklyn's splendid landmarks provide attractive settings for speculative builders' flats and houses.' Collage of photographs of historic (17th-19th century) Brooklyn buildings. The recto of this collage of photographs from an unknown newspaper includes images of Melrose Abbey (Bedford Ave. and Winthrop St., built 1749), the Remsen House on Church Avenue, the Van Brunt... |
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'Brooklyn's splendid landmarks provide attractive settings for speculative builders' flats and houses.' Collage of photographs of historic (17th-19th century) Brooklyn buildings. The verso of this collage of photographs from an unknown newspaper includes images of the milestone at Van Pelt Manor (18 Ave. and 82 St. erected 1741), the Lady Deborah Moody House (27 Gravesend... |
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'Brooklyn's splendid landmarks provide attractive settings for speculative builders' flats and houses.' This collage features the incomplete text of an illustrated article from an unknown newspaper detailing the histories of many of the historic (17th-19th century) buildings of Brooklyn. |
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Cortelyou House, South Brooklyn. Built 1699. Corner of 5th Avenue and 3rd Street. The Jacques Cortelyou House (also known as the Vechte-Cortelyou House or Old Stone House) was built in 1699 and played a role in the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn. The house was destroyed in 1898 but... |
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Cortelyou House, 5th Ave. & 3rd St, Bklyn. Lithograph by N. Currier. The Jacques Cortelyou House (also known as the Vechte-Cortelyou House or Old Stone House) was built in 1699 and played a role in the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn. The house was destroyed in 1898 but... |
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'Summer View of Brooklyn Village in 1820. From the original painting by S.J. Guy [sic] in the possession of the Long Island Historical Society.' Brooklyn Village comprised what is today Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights. This painting represents the view from 11 Front Street. It remains in the collection of what is now the Brooklyn... |
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'The Old Van Pelt Manor House, in the Original King's Highway Section, Brooklyn, New York,' from the Boston Herald, March 1925. Built by Dutch colonists in the town of New Utrecht around the 1670s. The house was used by American soldiers, including George Washington, during the Revolutionary War. The house was sold to the... |
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'Tomb of the Martyrs, Brooklyn, Long Island,' from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 20 May 1854. Engraving by Lewis P. Clover. The tomb of the martyrs was a monument erected by the Tammany Society in 1808 to mark the burial place of the soldiers who died as prisoners of British prison ships in Wallabout Bay during the... |
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'View of the old Dutch house, Long Island, erected 1699,' from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 26 March 1853. The Vechte-Cortelyou House, or Old Stone House, was built in 1699 and played a role in the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn. The house was destroyed in 1898 but was rebuilt in replica near its original... |
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Kyanize enamel advertisement featuring a photograph of the wooden mantel and measured drawings of the Snedeker House. Drawings by Edgar and Verna Cook Salomonsky. These advertisements, featuring architectural drawings of colonial houses, were produced by The Boston Varnish Company, who intended them to be collectibles. The company released the first series... |
