About This Item

  • TitleToll gate
  • Call NumberNEIG_0463
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0730, NEIG 0464), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three identical renderings (etching?), in different sizes, of toll gate, located at Fulton Street and Jamaica Avenue, in 1848, perhaps two oxen pulling large barrel on cart, a man standing beside cart in foreground, and a smaller figure (perhaps a child) standing in right background.
  • Date1848, 1896, 1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genreetchings (prints)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • Note0464 damaged slightly in lower left. 0464: on recto: "crayon studies" typeset on bottom center; inscribed on verso: "Plank Road." Dates inscribed on verso: 0463: Nov. 7/38; 0464: 1848; 0730: 1896. Title from inscription on verso of 0464.
  • SubjectOxen -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tollhouses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cypress Hills (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.