About This Item

  • TitleGymnasium, People's Palace, teacher in mid-air
  • Call NumberWILC_0343
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMen and boys exercising on parallel bars, pommel horse, and other gymnastic equipment at gymnasium at unknown location in Manhattan; man with mustache in foreground holding himself in upright position from hanging rings.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 5 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 52.a. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectGymnastics -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gymnasiums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Exercise -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.