About This Item

  • TitleHow do you like it?
  • Call NumberMEMO_0107
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryComposite image of equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant by William Ordway Partridge, located at Grant Square in Crown Heights, seen as if moved to Grand Army Plaza and occupying the site held by equestrian statue of General Henry Warner Slocum (not shown); memorial arch and apartment buildings in background. Caption on verso: "How Do You Like It? A Brooklyn Eagle photographer and a staff artist collaborated to make this scene with the Grant Statue placed on a site near Prospect Park Victory Arch. This is one of the locations suggested as appropriate."
  • Date1943
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotomontages
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 2[?] 1943. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorPartridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Statues ; Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930 ; Equestrian statues -- New York (State) -- New York ; Triumphal arches -- New York (State) -- New York ; Plazas -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.