[Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn Museum), dome gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.] – Vintage Print
![[Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn Museum), dome gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a9/a91a6c358bcf-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn Museum), dome gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn Museum), dome gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.]
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The domed central gallery of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, which housed the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway, is the subject here, seen as a light-filled interior space rather than a collection of individual objects. The museum's Beaux-Arts building was designed by the New York firm McKim, Mead & White and opened in the late 1890s, when the Institute was building a major public home for art and science in Brooklyn. Detroit Publishing Company photographers, working in the early 1900s, recorded such civic interiors for travel views and commercial sale, and this glass-plate negative dates to roughly that window, when museum rooms were often arranged for display as much as study.
| Created / published | [between 1905 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. G 7554" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039846. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Galleries & museums. Interiors.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 797 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-69323 |
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