Image of a broadside advertising steamboat, steam car, and train travel methods to Locust Grove from New York, Newark, and Coney Island. Includes images of ships, steamboats and smaller boats on water. Central image is of families seated at the Locust Grove Pavilion, with a view of the pier and ocean in the distance. Print also includes images of people swimming and surfing at Coney Island, and people viewing Gravesend Bay from the Locust Grove Hotel. Approximate date based on years lithographer was active and on history of island. In the late 1800's, Locust Grove was sold to shipping magnate John H. Starin who renamed the island as Glen Island in 1881. "Schell and Hogan" --text, mid-left of print. "Lith of Chas (Charles) Hart, 36 Vesey St. NY" --text, bottom left “From New York and Newark by Steamboat to Locust Grove. Steam cars from the Grove to Coney Island.” – text, top half of sheet “Trains leave main entrance, Greenwood Cemetery for Locust Grove Hotel and Coney Island every few minutes. Excursion Tickets 25 cents. Grand Promenade concerts every afternoon and evening at Locust Grove Hotel. Over the Salt Meadows by the Brooklyn, Bath, and Coney Island, R.R” --text, center of sheet “Steamboats leave north and east river piers every hour for Locust Grove and Coney Island, see advertisement and time table boats from Newark daily.” -- text, bottom of sheet.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.76 x 56.52 cm (28 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.)
Advertising--Transportation Travel--Marketing Tourism--Pictorial works Steam engineering Beaches--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place
New York (N.Y.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Travel & Exploration Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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