brooklynbridge

Great pic.

So, if the picture is _from_ the Brooklyn Bridge, which bridge is in the picture?

that would be the manhattan bridge.

Thanks! We'll add the information to the source data and reload the description.

Looks like it's headed towards the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), which is the black land mass in the distance on the right of the picture below the Manahattan Bridge. Likely this is October 6, 1912. The Wikipedia article indicates the Wyoming was completed in Philadelphia and then went to the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard for fitting-out on that date. It could be from another year up to 1916, though, perhaps all coming-to-ports by battleships were greeted this way. The Wyoming visited Brooklyn Naval Shipyard several times.

This appears to be a "banana boat", or refrigerated fruit transport, belonging to the United Fruit Company. The funnel colors would have been black on top, a red band with white diamond in the middle, and buff colored on the bottom. I believe the name of the ship is actually the "Santa Marta", not the Santa Maria. Santa Marta is a coastal town in Colombia and was a place of export for bananas. It's definitely pictured in New York, because you can see the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. These ships were painted white to keep the cargo cooler, and they also carried some passengers.

More on Santa Marta, from "Going Bananas: 100 Years of American Fruit Ships in the Caribbean" by Mark H. Goldberg, ISBN 1879180018: Santa Marta, built 1909, 5,013 tons displacement, 392' long, 50' beam, 13 knots speed, scrapped in Baltimore 1948, 12 sister ships. On page 355 of the book, there is a photo of her at the same East River pier, from a different angle.

Thanks! We'll fix the title in the source data and reload the description.

Hi again, I recently came across a model of the Santa Marta in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, and thought I'd post it here to further document the ship.

Hello, I think this photo may show the same model of the UFC's Santa Marta as part of the United Fruit Company's exhibit the International Trade Exhibition in New Orleans in 1926. [farm7.static.flickr.com/6094/6333381984_eae03d16a7.jpg]

i love this picture! i love how the sky is and the border of the photo!