December 11, 1941
Today the Brooklyn Museum opens the first exhibition of photographs from the Daniel Berry Austin Collection. This exhibition, entitled, “Brooklyn in the Early 1900’s”, is installed in the Entrance Gallery, first floor, and will remain on view through Sunday, January 4. Approximately 120 prints are shown, the majority being of old houses in Brooklyn, supplemented by landscapes, street scenes, interiors and portraits.
These photographs are from the collection of late 19th and early 20th Century negatives, which was presented to the Museum last summer by Mr. Daniel Berry Austin, 870 Rugby Road, Brooklyn. With one or two exceptions, all the negatives in this large collection were taken by Mr. Austin.
From time to time the Museum expects to hold additional exhibitions of prints from this collection.
List of titles attached.
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE AUSTIN COLLECTION
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
DECEMBER 11 through JANUARY 4
Nicholas Stillwell House - Gravesend, 1899
#116A
Schenck House (interior) - 1898
#83A
Hegeman’s at King’s Highway - Flatlands, Brooklyn
#446A
Bergen House - 1904
#90A
Hunter Fly Road (now King’s Highway)
#453A
Garrit Vanderveer House - Flatbush
#1lA
Quaker Meeting House - Flushing, 1904
#222A
Mr. Peter Wyckoff - Bushwick, 1903
#197A
Dutch Gravestone, Jaiquis Van Brunt, 1899
#119A
Lake House - Gravesend, 1899
#122A
Wm. Kovwenhoven’s House and Barn - Flatlands, 1905
#62A
Old House opposite Dutch Sunday School - Bushwick, 1899
#205A
Lefferts Place
#475A
Old Well and Winifred
#97A
Avenue V and Ryder’s Pond
#107A
Samuel B. Lott House - Flatbush
#5A
Jer. Vanderbilt House - Flatbush
#18A
Rem Lefferts House (interior) - 1906
#336A
Lefferts Place at Classon Avenue - Brooklyn, 1902
#299A
Grave of Helena Priest - Gravesend, 1899
#120A
Garretson Mill - 1899
#104A
House at Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenue
#53A
House at Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenue
#54A
House on Fulton Street near Bedford
#4A
“Hodge Podge” (interior)
#472A
USS “Buffalo” and USS “Columbia”
#471A
Paerdegaat, Flatbush - 1905
#44A
W. Algea House - Flatbush
#1A
Sidney’s Map - “Twelve Miles Around New York” (giving names of property owners) Published, 1849. Printed in Philadelphia.
Martense House, Flatbush - 1903
#146A
Grave of Lyffert Lefferts - Dutch Reformed Churchyard
#39A
Bridge over Paerdegaat Creek-1905
#59A
Ditmas House - Hunter Fly Road, 1903
#57A
Graves of Rem. Vanderbilt and Margaret Vanderbilt - 1903
#40A
