About This Item


  • TitleToll gate
  • Call NumberNEIG_0462
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo images outlined in gray: toll gate, a small, wood-frame building at Fulton Street and Jamaica Avenue in background with two oxen pulling large barrel on two-wheeled cart and man with whip in foreground and another man and several trees in background; "Studies" typed in lower left; cropped into round shape, 3 x 3 in.; large, three-story, institutional-looking, unidentifiable building with fence along front, several large trees, and horse-drawn coach, woman on horse, and man leading horse in foreground; cropped into rectangular shape, 3 x 5 1/2 in.
  • Date[1848?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate from 0464. Title from inscription on recto.
  • SubjectOxen ; Tollhouses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cypress Hills (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.