About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0436
  • TitleHo! for the cooling breezes, and Coney Island
  • SummaryTrain to Coney Island. Reproduction, probably from a 19th century illustrated publication; caption under drawing: "The first train to Coney Island was a weird affair. It was the acme of slow transit, and the accomodations were primitive in the extreme."
  • Date[189-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 3 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on recto.
  • SubjectRailroads
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Coney Island: Railroads