The colossal elephant of Coney Island
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801320
Item data
Title
The colossal elephant of Coney Island
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Coney Island
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1885-07-11
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Cone
Subjects
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc -- 1880-1889
Elephants -- New York (State) -- 1880-1889
Hotels
Genres
Technical Illustrations
Illustrations
Notes
Source Note: From Scientific American. (New York : Munn Co., 1845-).
Physical Description
Wood engravings
Extent: 27 x 25 cm. (10 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
Stain on image.
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17095024
Barcode: 33333159152863
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7696dec0-c55a-012f-f779-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1885-07-11
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MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The colossal elephant of Coney Island" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1885. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7696dec0-c55a-012f-f779-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1885). The colossal elephant of Coney Island Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7696dec0-c55a-012f-f779-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The colossal elephant of Coney Island" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7696dec0-c55a-012f-f779-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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