Main Gate at Sailors Snug Harbor

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Clegg, E. T.
USA, NY, New York, Staten Island
after 1801
paper; albumen print
overall: 10 x 12 in.; image: 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in.

Photograph, albumen print mounted on white board; photograph of the Main Gate at Sailors Snug Harbor, man in three piece suit, bow tie and hat standing in middle of entrance; printed on back "SAILORS SNUG ARBOR (sic)/ FOUNDED BY/ CAPT, RR RANDALL/ IN THE YEAR 1801"; stamped in purple ink "PHOTOGRAPHED/ BY/ E. T. CLEGG/ SSH". From 1861-1917 papers of Lorenzo L. B. Latham (captain, grocer, and resident of Sailor's Snug Harbor NY).


2001.124.2

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