Fort Lafayette

Fort Lafayette
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Title: Fort Lafayette
Description:

View of Fort Lafayette, an island coastal fortification in New York Harbor, constructed in 1812. Construction of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge resulted in its demolition in 1960.

Date: 1892
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Fort Lafayette (N.Y.)
New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Creator: Wilcox, Julius.
More Details: Date from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images.
Original cyanotype image has number: 107a.
Title from inscription below image on recto.
Collection: Julius Wilcox
Subject: Forts & fortifications
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: WILC 0371