About This Item

  • TitleHistoric cart wheels
  • Call NumberBANK_0041
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Historic 'cart wheels'--Three old silver dollars in the collection of 336 now on public display at the main office of the City Savings Bank, Flatbush and Lafayette Aves. They are, left to right, the first of all dollars, minted in Austria in 1486 in the reign of Maximilian; the first American silver dollar, the Liberty Dollar, coined here in 1795, and the American 'Dollar of Our Daddies,' issued in 1859, during the agitation for free silver coinage."
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 4 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Jun[e] 20, 1948. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectExhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York ; Silver coins -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.