About This Item

  • TitleExcursion boat & calliope
  • Call NumberFROG_0014
  • Cite AsRaoul Froger-Doudement photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (FROG 0015), some of which may also be described in this new record; Upper deck of excursion boat sailing near the John A. Roebling Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, with several spectators looking at a calliope emitting steam. A barrel on deck is stamped: [?] Island Queen. The towers of the bridge are seen in background.
  • Date[ca. 1900]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum of Art; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum of Art.
  • CreatorFroger-Doudement, Raoul [photographer]
  • SubjectExcursion boats ; Decks (Naval architecture) ; Suspension bridges ; Calliope
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationJohn A. Roebling Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Ky.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.