About This Item


  • TitleRiverside Drive
  • Call NumberTHOM_0001
  • Cite AsEdgar S. Thomson photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMan driving four-horse carriage on Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street in Manhattan with Grant's Tomb in far right background and two horse-drawn carriages and three men or boys with bicycles in left background.
  • Date1895
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 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]
  • SubjectHorse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationMorningside Heights (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.