About This Item

  • Title[Ball at the former Academy of Music in Manhattan]
  • Call NumberHOLI_0456
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryLithograph of interior of former Academy of Music on 14th Street and Irving Place, showing formal ball, with waltzing couples on floor, and orchestra at left. Caption on verso: "Above, how the old Academy of Music, in Manhattan, ballroom looked on the night in 1860 when daughters of New York's proudest families waited their turn to dance with the then Prince of Wales."
  • Date[1860?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printslithographsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 17/34. Retouched; 1 x 3 in. portion missing from lower left.
  • SubjectAcademy of Music (New York, N.Y.) ; Ballrooms -- New York (State) -- New York ; Balls (Parties) -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceGreenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.