About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0546
  • TitleNew pier
  • SummaryDrawing: large, wood-frame pavilion on Coney Island pier with man in horse-drawn wagon and seven men clam digging on beach in foreground.
  • Date[1880?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "New pier; gathering clams at low tide" printed at bottom. On verso: photographer's stamp. Title from caption on recto.
  • CreatorField, Herman
  • SubjectBeaches ; Clamming ; Pavilions
  • 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: Piers