Title: | Toll gate on the Coney Island Plank Road |
Description: | Lithograph of small wood building, three horse-drawn carriages in foreground, road on right, and trees in background. Caption: "Toll gate on the Coney Island Plank Road as it looked on Feb. 21, 1857. Extending from 15th St. at about the 'Brooklyn city line to Coney Island with a toll gate at each extremity, this is now Coney Island Ave. It was often thronged of a fine afternoon in summer with every description of carriages & horses, and was rated as the drive where sporting men of twenty years ago (1860) were accostumed to exhibit the fine qualities of their thoroughbreds'. --Stockwell" |
Date: | 1857 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
On recto: typeset caption at bottom of image: "Toll gate on the Coney Island Plank Road; New York, Saturday, February 21, 1857." Title from caption written in pencil on verso. |
Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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Subject: |
Carriages and carts [5] Horse-drawn vehicles [6] Toll roads [7] Tollhouses [8] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Lithographs. 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: | CONE 0359 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/27401650040e4eac6a4ce6e9b0ded7bd&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Coney+Island+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Coney+Island
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Carriages and carts
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Horse-drawn vehicles
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/t/Toll roads
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/t/Tollhouses