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Fort Hamilton Parkway at 100th Street
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View of construction on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from the Fort Hamilton Parkway, at 100th Street; June 16, 1963.
St. John's Episcopal Church
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St. John's Episcopal Church ca. 1939 9818 Fort Hamilton Parkway Church: 1890 Rectory: 1910 St. John’s Episcopal Church, originally Church of the Generals, was founded in 1834 and built by soldiers from Fort Hamilton. Numerous military leaders worshipped here, including Robert E. Lee, a vestryman from 1842 to 1844, and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, a parishioner from 1848 to 1850 after he fought in the Mexican War. This small country church has a frame structure with details painted red, white and gold, and features a rustic stone base and a slate roof.
Fort Hamilton VA Hospital
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Fort Hamilton Veterans' Hospital. Designed in 1950 by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, one of the preeminent modernist architects.
Church of St. Patrick
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Roman Catholic Church of St. Patrick and the associated parish school, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; June 16, 1963.
St. John's Episcopal Church
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Robert E. Lee plaque, July 13, 1958. Brooklyn does not seem the likeliest place for a Confederate plaque, but yet they did exist. According to a neighborhood legend, Robert E. Lee, while stationed at Fort Hamilton in the 1840s, planted a Norway maple in the churchyard at St. John's Episcopal Church. The parish (established in 1834) was given the nickname of "Church of the Generals" because its proximity to the fort meant many military men worshiped there. (Stonewall Jackson was supposedly baptized there.) The current church building dates to 1890s. In 1912 the rotting condition of the tree was mentioned by the rector to a group that he was speaking in front of; that group was the Daughters of the Confederacy. The group, made aware of the connection to Lee, petitioned the Parks Department to save the tree. Once it was stabilized the Daughter's installed a plague honoring Lee. In 1935 the original tree, by then dead or fallen, was replaced with a new tree and new plaque. In 2017 following the protests and violence surrounding the removal of Confederate statues in Virginia, the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island (which had closed the church in in 2015) removed the plaques.
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Poly Prep
Poly Prep Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0548, SCHL 0553), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three partial, exterior views, in different sizes, of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street. 0553 is not dated.
Poly Prep Country Day School
Education on Dyker Heights Caption: "Education on Dyker Heights--Intracacies of scientific experimentation prove no puzzle to pair of 14-year-olds at Poly Prep Country Day School, 7th Ave. and 92d St. Karl Djerf, left, and Harvey Karten plan to be listed among alumni when institution celebrates its 100th birthday in 1955."
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Poly Prep Country Day School Caption: "Poly Prep Country Day School, 92d St. and 7th Ave;" portion of main building with clock tower.
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Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School Caption: "\[Aerial view of portion of] Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School \[campus and environs], celebrating its 100th anniversary." The school is located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street.
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School's centennial Caption: "School's centennial--Recent aerial view of Poly\[technic] Prep\[aratory Country Day School and environs]. ... Dyker Heights golf course is off to right. School will mark its 100th year of ceremonies Wednesday." The school is located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street.
Poly Prep
Poly Prep Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0548, SCHL 0553), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three partial, exterior views, in different sizes, of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street. 0553 is not dated.
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261 Battery Avenue
Poly Prep
\[Motor buses bring Poly Prep boys to school] Close-up of two parked school buses, one in foreground with just driver, and another, behind, in school's porte-cochere, filled with boys, all students at Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street; portion of two-story brick building in background.
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There've been some changes Caption: "There've been some changes--Chatting with 'teacher' over the old days back in 1902 when these boys were graduates of Poly Prep are Lawrence C. Hull, Jr. of 257 Hicks St., Dr. Sutherland Miller of 95 St. John's Place, Dr. Hiram A. Tuttle of 8701 Shore Road, who retired from Poly after 50 years teaching Latin and Greek, Dr. Morris Henry, 2589 Bedford Ave., and S. W. Jones of 148 Clinton St. They're looking over the class day picture at reunion in Poly Prep Country Day School \[located at 7th Avenue & 92nd Street]."
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Poly Prep lays cornerstone Crowd of spectators, mostly back to camera, at laying of cornerstone of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School constructed at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street in Dyker Heights.
Poly Prep Country Day School
Honor students Caption: "Honor students--Elected to Cum Laude, Poly\[technic] Prep\[aratory Country Day School, 7th Avenue and 92nd Street] honor society, for the 1950-51 school year are, seated, left to right, Stephen Sigler, Richard Margolin, Peter Malkin, and L. Robert Rubin. Standing are left to right, Dr. George Washington Van Vleck, faculty adviser to the society, Michael Lamm, Jay Levine, Alan Burbank and Lockhart Davis Arbuckle, Jr."
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\[Entrance to Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School Close-up of entrance to Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street, with two brick gateposts with iron gates, unpaved driveway, and portion of main building and campus in background.
Poly Prep Country Day School
Last-minute lecture Caption: "Last-minute lecture--Frank R. Hancock, music department director at Poly Prep, had time for a quick rehearsal before the curtain went up last night upon the bend benefit concert in the Academy of Music. Listening intently are, left to right, Alan Neidle, band president \[holding trumpet], Gordon Merriam, orchestra president, and Desmond Murphy, glee club president \[holding violin];" all are wearing tuxedos.
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At Poly Prep dinner Caption: "At Poly Prep dinner--Borough President Cashmore, center, chairman of the Parents' Division of the Poly Prep Centennial Fund, confers here with Houghton Bell, chairman of the school's board of trustees, left, and with the Right Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America, at last night's dinner launching the fund campaign. Bishop Sherrill, Class of '06, was principal speaker."
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Brooklyn landmark Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0557), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views: Caption: "Brooklyn landmark--The tower of Poly Prep Country Day School on Dyker Heights \[at 92nd Street and 7th Avenue], a landmark on Brooklyn's skyline."
Poly Prep
Poly Prep Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0548, SCHL 0553), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three partial, exterior views, in different sizes, of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street. 0553 is not dated.
Poly Prep
Poly Prep Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 1598), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of portion of campus of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 92nd Street and 7th Avenue with main building and clock tower in background.
Poly Prep
Brooklyn landmark Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0557), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views: Caption: "Brooklyn landmark--The tower of Poly Prep Country Day School on Dyker Heights \[at 92nd Street and 7th Avenue], a landmark on Brooklyn's skyline."
Poly Prep
P.A.L. gives thanks to Poly Prep Caption: "P.A.L. gives thanks to Poly Prep--In appreciation of Poly Prep's allowing Police Athletic League to use its 25-acre campus, William A. Nelson, left, chairman of 64th Precinct Coordinating Council of P.A.L., and Frank J. McGowen, center, secretary of P.A.L., present check to J. Folwell Scull, Jr, Poly headmaster. Gift will be added to school's centennial fund." School is located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street.
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\[Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School] Aeriel view of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street. The image is not dated.
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Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School Architectural rendering of proposed Polytechnic Preparatory Scountry Day School building. School is located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street.
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New Poly Prep house Facade of a one-story wood-frame house with six Doric columns in colonnade front and widow's walk; automobile parked in left foreground. The house was connected with Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School. The school was located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street.
Poly Prep Country Day School
Outstanding cadets Caption: "Outstanding cadets--Col. Lawrence E. Lynn, left, professor of military science and tactics at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, shakes hands with Cadet Lt. Col. Francis J. Mercerf as he extendscongratulations to officer and Cadet Sgt. Victor R. Struber. The two received medals awarded by Society of American Military Engineers to senior and junior cadets in Brooklyn's only Reserve Officer Training Corps unit durind review of Poly Prep Country Day School parade grounds."
Poly Prep
Poly Prep Close-up of clock tower portion of main building at Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School at 92nd Street and 7th Avenue.
Poly Prep
Poly Prep Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 1598), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of portion of campus of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 92nd Street and 7th Avenue with main building and clock tower in background.
Poly Prep
Poly Prep Partial view of main building and campus of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street.
Poly Prep
Poly Prep Partial facade of main building of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street, with flagpole on landscaped lawn, unpaved driveway, and two parked automobiles.
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