[Brooklyn Navy Yard] – Vintage Print
![[Brooklyn Navy Yard], [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3c/3c996ef84af3-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Brooklyn Navy Yard], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Two glass negatives, meant to be joined side by side, record the East River waterfront of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with a stretch of lawn and office buildings on one half and the wharves on the other. The yard had been established on Wallabout Bay in 1801, and by the 1890s it was a major center for building and repairing warships for the U.S. Navy. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across the country to record cities and industry, listed these views in its 1901 catalog, and the wide format shows the yard's long frontage on the water.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 4 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | Title devised by cataloger. Title on jacket of D4-21244: The lawn and office, Brooklyn Navy Yard. Title on D4-21245: The wharves, Brooklyn Navy Yard. Two negatives form a panorama with close variants of each section; actual left to right order is 1A-14973 (or 14974), 14971 (or 14972). Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 10544-2 sec R" on A negative; "10545 dup." on B negative of D4-21244. "10544-2 sec L" on D4-21245 A negative. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 021244 and 021245. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.) Naval yards & naval stations. Piers & wharves.United States--New York (State)--New York.United States--New York (State)--East River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 807 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64395 |
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