About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0102
  • TitleCyrus Porter Smith
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0101), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two studio portraits, in different sizes, of Cyrus Porter Smith, mayor of the City of Brooklyn from 1838 to 1841. 0102 is a cabinet card albumen print.
  • Date[185-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 5 in.
  • Genrealbumen printsgelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • Note0102: 7 x 5 in.; inscribed on verso: "Brasier, Brooklyn, N. Y.; offered to Brooklyn by S. Colum Gilfillan, March, 1979." Title from name below image on recto.
  • SubjectSmith, Cyrus Porter, 1800-1877 ; Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, 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.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Brooklyn Mayors: Smith, Cyrus Porter