Taking the time, Brooklyn Navy Yard – Historic Print
![Taking the time, Brooklyn Navy Yard, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a7/a7fe7a75dc24-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 historic photograph of Taking the time, Brooklyn Navy Yard brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Taking the time, Brooklyn Navy Yard
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The picture turns on a clock and the seamen and officers who depended on it, a detail that sets it apart from the ships and yard views in this group. The Brooklyn Navy Yard, established on the East River in 1801, grew into a major shipbuilding and repair base, and precise timekeeping structured the working day for its crews. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American cities and landmarks around 1900, made this glass negative sometime between 1890 and 1901.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Negatives are close variants. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021274. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | United States.--Navy. Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.) Clocks & watches. Seamen--American. Military officers--American. Interiors. Naval yards & naval stations.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 802 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64427 |
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