About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0071
  • TitleUSS Brooklyn
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (THOM 0035, THOM 0072, THOM 0073, THOM 0074, THOM 0085, THOM 0086), some of which may also be described in this new record; Seven images of of USS Brooklyn, an armored cruiser sailing, presumably, in New York Harbor after the Spanish American War; 0071: ship moored with several men standing on bow and group of men standing on dock in foreground.
  • Date1898
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1898. On verso of 0071: "At presentation of silver service, 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]
  • SubjectWarships -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceNew 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 2