[Heavily retouched image of Kings County Courthouse]

[Heavily retouched image of Kings County Courthouse]
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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.)
Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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
Subject: Courthouses
Domes
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: GOVT 0177