About This Item

  • Call NumberTHOM_0044
  • TitleOpening of Coney Island cycle path
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (THOM 0068, THOM 0045, THOM 0069, THOM 0046), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five images of men bicycling on Coney Island cycle path; 0044, 0045, 0068, 0069: spectators on both sides; 0046: man with two-wheeled cart standing in left foreground and woman walking in right foreground.
  • Date1896
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1896; 0068, 0069: 1895. Title from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorThomson, Edgar S. [photographer]
  • SubjectCycling -- New York (State) -- New York ; Spectators -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsEdgar S. Thomson photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/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.
  • FolderEdgar S. Thomson photograph collection ; Folder 2