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Brooklyn Sanitary Fair. New England Kitchen. New England Cooks.
American Soldiers. A party of the Seventh Regiment on bivouac, between the exercises in connection with the Eighth Regiment and Lafayette Guard, in the field, at East New York.
Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY. Written on verso is “Paddle Frigate Susquehanna, built ca. 1850, sold in 1883.”
Interior, Fort Lafayette, Hendrik’s reef. Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now Bay Ridge in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The fort was built on a natural island known as Hendrick’s Reef. Construction on the fort began during the War of 1812 and was completed in 1822. The fort, originally named Fort Diamond after its shape, was renamed in 1823 to celebrate the Marquis de La Fayette, a hero of the American Revolution who would soon commence a grand tour of the United States. The fort was demolished in 1960 to make room for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge; the Brooklyn-side bridge tower now occupies the fort’s former foundation site.
Brooklyn Court House and City Hall in background. Circa 1864. Shows the Photograph Gallery of Charles A. Rawson, 255 & 257 Fulton St. in Brooklyn since 1859. Later moved to 326 Fulton. Also shows Douglass Photo Studio at 330 Fulton St. Corner of Washington St. in 1863.
Moving Brighton Beach Hotel, Coney Island, with Locomotives, by B.C. Miller & Sons, House Movers, 979 and 998 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. There are illustrations and an article on the moving of this hotel in Scientific American, April 14, 1888, cover and p.230.