12914.
View in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Brooklyn
12915.
Boiler House & Well, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
12916.
Boiler House & Well, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
12917.
Concert Grove House, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
12918.
Artists at Work, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. I believe the man at right is W.E. James. An assistant can be seen working, leaning in the back of the dark wagon.
12919.
10250. Decorating Gen. Grant’s Tomb, Decoration Day, Prospect Park, New York.
12920.
Prospect Rock, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
12939.
Connelly Motor Streetcar/Trolley in New York. This is one of the earliest uses of a gasoline powered motor in a trolley. It shows a conductor at the controls. The side of the streetcar shows patent dates from 1886. This is railway car number 1. Streetcars made by Connelly Motor Company operated on the Brooklyn Flatbush & Coney Island Railway. Also was used on the Elizabeth & Newark Horse Railroad. These cars didn’t last too long due to the smell of the exhaust and the noise. In 1878 the first American patent on a gasoline motor was filed by The Connelly Motor Company of New York. It advertised automobiles for sale in 1888, thus constituting one of the earliest known (and perhaps the first) gasoline driven motor cars available to the public. The Daimler and the Duryea were offered for sale in 1891 and 1892, respectively.
12953.
Green-Wood Cemetery, New York. Untitled.
12954.
82. Sec. 100. Ocean Hill, Westside, View North.
12955.
The Tour, Greenwood.
12956.
Greenwood Cemetery, No. 42.
12957.
293. Sec. 2. Vision Path. George Steers.
12958.
252. Sect. 92. Cherry Ave.–Taylor.
12959.
254. Sec. 92. Cherry Hill. Canda.
12960.
158. Sec. 91. Highland Avenue.
12961.
Entrance to Green-Wood.
12962.
296. Sec. 11. Tulip Hill. Mrs. M. Carlin.
12963.
No. 645. Sec. 108. Bay-Side Dell–A.H. Van Bokkelin.
12964.
No. 761. Sec. 11. Tulip Hill–S.T. Chamsey.
12965.
383. Sec. 119. Ocean Hill–Augustus Wm. Howland.
12966.
463. Sec. 91. Near Fern Path.–Walker–Bowden.
12967.
No. 768. Sec. 55. Front Ave.–Clark Wright, M.D.
12968.
No. 606. Sec. 73, 74. Grove Ave.–Daniel Pomeroy.
12969.
76. Sec. 100. Ocean Hill, View North.
12970.
143. Sec. 92. Charlotte Canda.
12971.
965. Green-Wood Cemetery. Untitled.
12972.
Green-Wood Cemetery. Woodruff.
12912.
No. 18, Shelter House, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY.
12973.
Green-Wood Cemetery. Adeline Cecelia.
12974.
Green-Wood Cemetery. Untitled.
12975.
No. 680. Sec. 60. Aspen Hill–Rev. Andrew Starke, L.L.D.
12976.
Green-wood Cemetery. Untitled.
12977.
40. Sec. 68. From Lawn Girt Hill, looking South.
12978.
45. Sec. 27. Alpine Hill.
12979.
47. Sec. 27. Summit Avenue, looking North.
12980.
Green-wood Cemetery. Untitled.
12981.
368. Sec. 81. Base of Chestnut Hill. Chas. Morgan.
12982.
No. 1086. Charlotte Candee’s [sic] Monument, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
12983.
View in Greenwood Cemetery.
12984.
Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.
12985.
Greenwood Cemetery. Steinway.
12987.
460. White Hall, New York, from Brooklyn.
12988.
459. Fulton Ferry, N.Y., from Brooklyn.
12989.
461. Governor’s Island, from Brooklyn, N.Y.
12998.
Horse-drawn Carousel, Brooklyn, NY, 1948.
12999.
Schermerhorn House, built 1690, oldest house in Brooklyn still standing, 3d Avenue and 28th Street, on site of first house built in Brooklyn in 1636. Taken March 27, 1887.
13000.
Road, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY.
13001.
West Brighton Beach. The “Merry-go-around.” This is Chas. I.D. Looff’s 1st merry-go-around. He stands at the center.
Charles Looff was born as Carl Jürgen Detlev Looff on May 24, 1852 in Bad Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein, German Confederation (temporary occupied by Denmark in second Schleswig War). His father Jürgen Detlef Christian Looff was a master blacksmith and wagon builder. Watching his father, Carl learned how to work with metal and wood. To avoid the coming war, Carl emigrated to the United States. Arriving in Castle Garden, New York City, on August 14, 1870, he changed his first name to Charles. In low German, the letters I and J look very much alike, and confusion set in as to his initials. Somehow, his name became Charles I. D. Looff instead of J. D. Looff.
Settling on Leonard Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, he found work as a carver at a furniture factory. Working part-time as a ballroom dance instructor, Looff met and married Anna Dolle, also from Germany, in 1874. After working in the furniture factory all day, he took scraps of wood home to his apartment and began carving them into carousel animals. Young Looff assembled his wooden horses and animals onto a circular platform and created his first merry-go-round. In 1876, he installed his ride at Lucy Vandeveer’s Bathing Pavilion at West Sixth Street and Surf Avenue. This was Coney Island’s first carousel and first amusement ride.
Looff opened a factory at 30 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn and continued building more carousels.
13002.
Observatory, Coney Island.