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| 1162 |  | Details | New York and Sea Beach Railroad | 1881 |
| Antique Schedule for the New York and Sea Beach Railroad |
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New York and Sea Beach Railroad |
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| 1881 |
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| $90.00 | New-York-and-Sea-Beach-Railroad | Antique-Schedule-for-the-New-York-and-Sea-Beach-Railroad | Scarce antique folding trade card / schedule for 1881, the inaugural year for service by Iron Steamboat to Coney Island. With a purple ink hand-stamp: <b>"1881. IRON BOATS. 1881."</b>. Front cover contains a drawing of Sea Beach Palace, the terminus of the New York and Sea Beach Railroad at <b>Coney Island</b>. Back cover with a colorful scene of Bay Ridge Landing with the steamboat "Idlewild" docked.
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The <b>Iron Steamboat Company of New Jersey</b> (1881-1932) provided ferry service between Manhattan and Coney Island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The original fleet consisted of seven iron-hulled, multi-deck, coal-fired sidewheel steamboats, divided into twelve watertight compartments. Each boat was named after a constellation--the Cygnus, the Cepheus, the Cetus, the Pegasus, the Perseus, the Sirius and the Taurus. An early advertisement for the fleet boasted "They Cannot Burn – They Will Not Sink".
(Cudahy, Brian J.<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FtUzg07N0wwC" target="_blank"> "How we Got to Coney Island". </a>Fordham University Press. 2002.)
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Folded card with 4 sections. Printed by Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York. |