About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0090
  • TitleBrooklyn Navy Yard
  • SummaryView of Brooklyn Navy Yard with New York Harbor in foreground and several boats and ships moored in background.
  • Date1893
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "E. S. Thomson, Brooklyn Navy Yard" printed in white ink on bottom. On verso: date inscribed: 1893. Title from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorThomson, Edgar S. [photographer]
  • SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
  • Cite AsEdgar S. Thomson photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderEdgar S. Thomson photograph collection ; Folder 4