About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0075
  • TitleGrant's Tomb
  • SummaryGrant's Tomb, also known as General Grant National Memorial, at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street, at the time of its dedication; it is a granite copy of Mausoleus' tomb at Halicarnassus, designed by John H. Duncan in 1897.
  • Date1895
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1895. 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]
  • SubjectGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationMorningside Heights (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