Image of a poster with a central image of an elevated street view of the lawn, walkways, bandstand, covered fountain, and trees before the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad terminal on Coney Island in New York City, captioned "Grand Plaza and Promenade, terminus of the rail road on Coney Island," with a timetable, promotional descriptions, and seven additional vignettes of crowded scenes of people visiting Coney Island, including two top corner images of beach scenes; a top center image of the lawn, bandstand, and building captioned, “Grand view of 50 miles from observatory 300 feet high”, a lower center image of a steam locomotive with three open passenger cars, a bottom left image of the iron tower observatory, a bottom center image of the 1872 railroad station, captioned, “Brooklyn Depot, Ninth Avenue, 19th and 20th Streets, Greenwood”, with horse-drawn trolleys and carriage, and a bottom right image of a covered drinking fountain. Probable date based on item text, middle right of image, "Summer Evening Concerts. During the season of 1878, Summer Evening Promenade Concerts will be given every Evening ..." "Maerz & Co. Brooklyn, E.D. N.Y"--text, bottom right margin. "Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Offices in the Depots at Greenwood and Coney Island"--text, bottom center.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 68.9 x 54.61 cm (27 1/8 x 21 1/2 in.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Parks--Pictorial works Advertising--Railroads Leisure--Pictorial works Local transit--Pictorial works Railroads--Buildings and structures--Pictorial works Railroad stations--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Tourism--Pictorial works Railroad passenger cars--Pictorial works Prospect Park & Coney Island Railroad Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Timetables. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Railroad The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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