About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2153
  • TitleBrooklyn Navy Yard daguerrotype
  • SummaryCaption: "Rear Admiral E. H. C. Leutze, U. S. N., retired, has presented to Secretary of the Navy Daniels a daguerrotype of the first drydock built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The picture ... shows the dock while in process of construction in 1846. The work was supervised by Civil Engineer William Jarvis McAlpin, father-in-law of Admiral Leutze. An interesting feature of the daguerrotype is the picture of a man in frock coat and silk hat, making an inspection for the naval secretary of those days."
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genredaguerreotypes (photographs)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 21, 1914; Brooklyn Daily Eagle label. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard ; Docks -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, 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.
  • FolderFolder: Brooklyn Navy Yard: Construction