Photographs Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Chestnut, Brookville |
Collection |
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection |
Photographer |
Lewis, Jr., Elias |
Image ID |
V1972.1.285 |
Date |
1877/11 |
Description |
View of a large chestnut tree, on the Anderson Brookville farm in Long Island. Chestnut Brookville/Bottom of picture lost by moving of camera -/tree 21 ft girth/EL 1877 [handwritten on recto]; The largest chestnut yet found by/me on LI - Nov 1877 -/Girth at ground 21 f 9 in and/Six feet up still 16 foot girth/on farm of Anderson Brookville [handwritten on verso] |
Place Names |
Long Island (N.Y.) Nassau County (N.Y.) Brookville (N.Y.) |
Subject Headings |
Trees Farms Chestnuts |
Collection Finding Aid |
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (ARC.201) |
Copyright |
Public Domain |
Genre |
Photographic prints |