About This Item

  • TitleExcursion boat & calliope
  • Call NumberFROG_0015
  • Cite AsRaoul Froger-Doudement photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (FROG 0014), some of which may also be described in this new record. Upper deck of excursion boat sailing near the John A. Roebling Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, with several spectators looking at a calliope emitting steam. Girders of the Roebling Bridge are visible in the background.
  • Date[ca. 1900]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum of Art; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum of Art.
  • CreatorFroger-Doudement, Raoul [photographer]
  • SubjectExcursion boats ; Decks (Naval architecture) ; Suspension bridges ; Calliope
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationJohn A. Roebling Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Ky.)
  • 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.