About This Item

  • TitleMaritime Service Training Station
  • Call NumberNEIG_1827
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1826), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two images. Typed caption (1826): "Enrolees from all parts of the country shown arriving at United States Maritime Service Training Station at Sheepshead Bay ..." Caption (1827): "Trained seamen leaving the Merchant Marine Training Center ... greet a class of rookies on the way in ... During 1945, a total of 100,000 men will be trained for service."
  • Date1945, [195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso (1826): "Please credit United States Maritime Service." 1827: "Please credit War Shipping Administration Photo;" date stamped: May 20, 1945. Title from typed caption on verso of 1826.
  • SubjectMerchant marine -- New York (State) -- New York ; Merchant mariners -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (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.