manhattanbridge

This is actually the Manhattan Bridge, not the Brooklyn Bridge, although it too bridges Manhattan and Brooklyn over the East River.

Thanks again, TVL1970! You are correct. This is the Manhattan Bridge, not the Brooklyn Bridge. We will work to update our descriptive data on this image. Jerry (U.S. National Archives)

Yes, the Manhattan Bridge....and I'll be riding this train back home in about an hour!

This is definitely the Manhattan Bridge! I have been on that bridge and on the Brooklyn Bridge too many times not to know the difference.

Ten years ago, there was a message saying you were going to update the description. Ten years is a long time not to have it done! Ron

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May 11, 1914: the National Memorial Service for 17 U. S. sailors killed in April at Vera Cruz, Mexico. Story in the New York Times, 5/11/14: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE3DB173AE6...

Wystan, Thanks for your efforts with the numerous photographs which document the National Memorial Service of May 11, 1914. We will be able to better link the related images and expand the descriptions, including the addition of a date where one is not yet included.

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.