About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0040
  • TitleUSS Alliance
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (THOM 0036), some of which may also be described in this new record; USS Alliance, a sloop, moored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with portion of two-wheeled vehicle in foreground.
  • Date1896
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "E. S. Thomson, U.S.S. Alliance" printed in white ink on bottom. On verso: date inscribed: 1896. 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]
  • SubjectNew York Naval Shipyard ; Sailing ships -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sloops -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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 2