About This Item

  • Call NumberMEMO_0098
  • TitleMay leave Brooklyn
  • SummaryEquestrian state of Ulysses S. Grant by William Ordway Partridge, seen on pedestal from below against sky in Crown Heights. Caption on verso: "May Leave Brooklyn: The statue of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, for 45 years at Grant Square on Bedford Ave. and Dean St., would be shifted to Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive, under a proposal submitted to the city Art Commission by the Grant Memorial Association."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 4, 1941; "Eagle Staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorPartridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930 ; Brooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Statues ; Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930 ; Equestrian statues -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Memorials: General Ulysses S. Grant