About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0359
  • TitleToll gate on the Coney Island Plank Road
  • SummaryLithograph 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".
  • Date1857
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printslithographsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn 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.
  • SubjectCarriages and carts ; Horse-drawn vehicles ; Toll roads ; Tollhouses
  • 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: Toll gate