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B'klyn Navy Yard-Laying Keel of NEW YORK – Historic Reproduction

B'klyn Navy Yard-Laying Keel of NEW YORK, n/a — historic photograph
B'klyn Navy Yard-Laying Keel of NEW YORK, n/a. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(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: B'klyn Navy Yard-Laying Keel of NEW YORK, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The record places this glass negative at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with a title describing the laying of a keel for a vessel named New York. A keel-laying marked the start of a warship's construction, and the yard was one of the country's major naval shipbuilding works in the early twentieth century. The Bain News Service, the New York photo agency whose founder gave the collection its name, supplied news pictures to newspapers and magazines. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information the agency provided that has not been independently verified, so the exact occasion is uncertain.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,753 × 4,267 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-10759

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