About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0018
  • TitleScene at Talmage's Tabernacle fire
  • SummaryMany spectators at scene of fire which destroyed Brooklyn Tabernacle, a large Presbyterian church also known as Talmage's Tabernacle, whose preacher was Thomas De Witt Talmage, 1832-1902.
  • Date1894
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1894. 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]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Spectators -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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 1