About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0060
  • TitleFort Loury Hotel
  • SummaryFort Loury (or Lourey) Hotel, a large building with turrets and several smaller buildings, in Bath Beach and Gravesend Bay in foreground. Note: It is unknown whether adjacent smaller buildings are part of Fort Loury Hotel.
  • Date1896
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: second inscription: "Ft. Lourey Hotel." 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]
  • SubjectHotels -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBath Beach (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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 3