Brooklyn Navy Yard – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Brooklyn Navy Yard, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Brooklyn Navy Yard, shown here in a glass-plate negative from about 1904, was one of the largest and busiest naval shipbuilding and repair sites in the United States. Made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely and sold views of American places to a national market, the picture records the yard's working waterfront at the turn of the twentieth century. The yard, on the East River, built and maintained warships and other government vessels, and it stayed a major employer in Brooklyn for well over a century. Glass negatives of this size captured fine detail, so the plate preserves the scale of the vessels and facilities as they stood at the time.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | 29" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021818. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.) Government vessels--American. Naval yards & naval stations.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 789 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64860 |
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