Stewards and nurses, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital – Antique Print
![Stewards and nurses, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9c6ccf36b24d-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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This rare historic photograph captures Stewards and nurses, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Stewards and nurses, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital
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Among the Detroit Publishing Company views of Brooklyn, this glass-plate group portrait stands out for its subject: the stewards and nurses of the hospital at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, posed together rather than shown as a building or street scene. The Navy Yard, established in 1801 on the Wallabout Bay waterfront, was one of the nation's principal naval shipbuilding and repair facilities, and its hospital cared for sailors and marines stationed or injured there. Detroit Publishing Company, based in Detroit, sold large numbers of such views as photochrom prints and photographs to travelers and collectors around 1900. The portrait's record dates it to between 1890 and 1901, a window that suggests a visit when the staff was still largely a working body of men and women tending naval patients.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 3" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021269. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy. Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.) Hospitals. Nurses. Naval yards & naval stations.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 789 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64420 |
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