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[Kings County] Court House, [Brooklyn, N.Y.; entrance front, flanked by Municipal Building (right) and Hall of Records] – Historic Photograph Print

[Kings County] Court House, [Brooklyn, N.Y.; entrance front, flanked by Municipal Building (right) and Hall of Records], c1891. — historic print
[Kings County] Court House, [Brooklyn, N.Y.; entrance front, flanked by Municipal Building (right) and Hall of Records], c1891.. Historic print from the Brooklyn collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Kings County] Court House, [Brooklyn, N.Y.; entrance front, flanked by Municipal Building (right) and Hall of Records]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Kings County] Court House, [Brooklyn, N.Y.; entrance front, flanked by Municipal Building (right) and Hall of Records]

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This view shows the entrance front of the Kings County Courthouse, with the Municipal Building on the right and the Hall of Records beside it, grouped together as the civic center of downtown Brooklyn. In the early 1890s Brooklyn was still a separate city, not part of New York City until consolidation in 1898, so these buildings housed the county's courts and records. The photogravure process, which produced fine tonal detail on a printing plate, was copyrighted by A. Wittemann. The date comes from an old caption card and has not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1891.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photogravure.
NotesPhotogravure copyrighted by A. Wittemann. Reference copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 111 (B11). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,195 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146501

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