Toll gate on the Coney Island Plank Road
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| 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.) Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) |
| 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
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| Subject: |
Carriages and carts Horse-drawn vehicles Toll roads Tollhouses |
| 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 |
