About This Item

  • TitleConey Island toll gate
  • Call NumberCONE_0358
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing of small wood house, three horse-drawn carriages in foreground, road on right, and trees in background.
  • Date[189-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: typeset caption at bottom of image: "For those who would go to the Island by road there was the ubiquitous toll gate, where fare for passage was exacted." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectCarriages and carts ; Horse-drawn vehicles ; Tollhouses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.