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Walt Whitman's Brooklyn Revisited

<p>Currently the only known image of the old Military Garden buildings. Circa 1860s.</p>


<p>Brooklyn City Hall, 1851, by John Bornet. </p>


<p>View of the Navy Yard from the river. Circa 1850s.</p>



<p>East side of Henry Street between Cranberry and Orange. Circa 1852. </p>


<p>"Navy Yard at left with Manhattan beyond; Whitman’s working-class neighborhood at right."</p>