Sands Street entrance, Brooklyn Navy Yard – Antique Photo Print
(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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Sands Street entrance, Brooklyn Navy Yard
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The Sands Street entrance was one of the main gates into the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the federal shipbuilding and repair complex on Wallabout Bay that dates to 1801. Around 1904, when this glass negative was made, the yard was a busy center for building and fitting out warships, and its gatehouses marked the line between the city street and a restricted military workplace. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this view, sold images of American towns, landmarks and industrial sites to travelers and publishers in the early 1900s, so the picture also records how the Navy Yard looked to the public at that time.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | 23" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021814. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.) Gatehouses. 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-64857 |
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