About This Item
- TitleBrooklyn Navy Yard
- Call NumberNEIG_2138
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 2372, NEIG 2368, NEIG 2371), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three prints and one drawing of Brooklyn Navy Yard and waterfront. Inscription on verso of 2138: "Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1853;" 2368 includes schooner in the harbor; 2371: caption on recto below image: "Interior esplanade fronting the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., with the ship, North Carolina, alongside, November 8, 1851;" 2372 includes small group of people standing, back to camera, on pier and small sailboat in foreground; inscription on verso: "Brooklyn Navy Yard as it appeared in 1831."
- Date1831-1853
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsprints (visual works)
- Note2138 and 2371 are identical. Title from inscription on verso of 2368.
- SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard ; Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Navy Yard (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.