About This Item

  • Call NumberPARK_0119
  • TitlePrison Ship Martyrs Monument
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PARK 0117, PARK 0120, PARK 0107), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views, in different sizes, of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park. Caption (0119): "The monument, a stately granite shaft ... was constructed in 1908, from plans by architect Stanford White, as a memorial to more than 1,200 Revolutionary patriots who died on board the British prison ships anchored in Wallabout Bay and whose bones are now preserved in a vault at its base." 0119 shows monument being repaired. One of the images is not dated.
  • Date1936-1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0107: cropped: 10 x 6 in.; 0117: 7 x 7 in. Title from inscription on verso of 0107.
  • SubjectPrison Ship Martyrs Monument (New York, N.Y.) ; Monuments -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Parks: Fort Greene Park: Prison Ship Martyrs Monument