Pitch, the ship's mascot - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901) continues: ... New York (armored cruiser).
Attribution based on negative D4-20739.
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901).
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020782.
Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890