13007.
West Brighton Beach. The Big Cow.
New York City
13007.
1040. Coney I. & NY Bay from Elevator.
13008.
South Street, NY.
13008.
West Brighton Beach. View from West Brighton Beach Hotel.
13009.
Lenox Hospital, NY.
13009.
West Brighton Beach. Bathing Scene.
13010.
1253. Croton Reservoir.
13010.
Brighton Beach. Hotel Brighton.
13011.
Grace Church, Episcopal, New York.
13011.
Manhattan Beach. Music Pavilion.
13012.
The Approach to Brooklyn Bridge.
13012.
West Brighton Beach. West Brighton Beach Hotel.
13013.
Franklin St. from the Tombs.
13013.
West Brighton Beach. The Iron Pier–1000 feet long.
13014.
No. 139. View of Broadway Bridge, St. Pauls, and Astor House, NY City.
13014.
West Brighton Beach. Coney Island Beach, from the Iron Pier.
13015.
Broadway & Union Square at 13th St.
13015.
West Brighton Beach. The Iron Pier–1000 feet long.
13016.
Homeopathic Hospital, Ward’s Island, NY.
13016.
Iron Pier, Coney Island.
13017.
Homeopathic Hospital, Ward’s Island, NY. This building began its life for a different purpose.
In the late nineteenth century the belief that alcoholism could be cured by confinement led to the establishment of inebriate asylums. In 1864 judges were granted the power to commit alcoholics to asylums. In the Textbook of Temperance (1869), Lees proclaims, “At last physiologists and statesmen have begun to acknowledge that the drinker’s appetite is a true mania and must be treated as such. Hence the establishment of ‘Inebriate Asylums’ in various parts of the States.” The Asylum on Ward’s Island was opened in 1868 by the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction, becoming the third in New York State. In New York and its Institutions, 1609-1871 (1872), Richmond chronicles its opening, “On the 21st of July 1868 the Asylum was formally opened to the public with appropriate services and on the 31st of December the resident physician reported 339 admissions. During 1869 1,490 were received and during 1870 1,270 more were admitted.”
While most patients were transferred from the Workhouse, there were also three classes of paying patients, with voluntary attendance of some. However, the Commissioners and the Attending Physician of the Inebriate Asylum came to agree with prevailing expert opinion that stricter confinement was necessary. Richmond explains, “The rules of the Institution were at first exceedingly mild. The patients were relieved from all irksome restraints, paroles very liberally granted and every inmate supposed intent on reformation. But this excessive kindness was subject to such continual abuse that to save the Institution from utter demoralization a stricter discipline was very properly introduced.”
As forcible detention came to lose favor as a means of treating alcoholism, the Inebriate Asylum closed in 1875. The building temporarily housed the overflow of patients from the Insane Asylum, also located on Ward’s Island, before becoming the Homeopathic Hospital the same year. The Homeopathic Hospital was renamed Metropolitan Hospital in 1894 when it moved to Blackwell’s Island, marking the beginning of Metropolitan’s affiliation with New York Homeopathic Medical College (now New York Medical College).
13017.
Dining Room, Brighton Beach, Coney Island.
13018.
No. 23. Bowery looking north from Grand Street.
13018.
Andrew R. Culver’s R.R., the Culver Line.
13019.
Looking West toward New York from Brooklyn Bridge.
13019.
Untitled Coney Island.
13020.
No. 24. Wall Street and Trinity Church.
13021.
1336. Casino Theatre, N.Y. City. The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway and West 39th Street in New York City. Built in 1882, it was a leading presenter of mostly musicals and operettas until it closed in 1930. The theatre was the first in New York to be lit entirely by electricity, popularized the chorus line and later introduced white audiences to African-American shows. It originally seated approximately 875 people, however the theatre was enlarged in 1894 and again in 1905, after a fire, when its capacity was enlarged to 1,300 seats. It hosted a number of long-running comic operas, operettas and musical comedies, including Erminie, Florodora, The Vagabond King and The Desert Song. It closed in 1930 and was demolished the same year.
13021.
Coney Island, NY.–Vanderveer’s Hotel.
13022.
Marine Railway Station, Coney Island.
13022.
A Scene in the Blizzard NYC 1888.
13023.
Grand Central Depot, NY.
13023.
Music Pavilion, Coney Island, NY.
13024.
Crowd reading the latest posted news.
13024.
Camera Obscura. This is Culver’s Camera Obscura, bought from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876.
13025.
Lewis Aunts & Brothers & Sisters, Staten Island, NY.
13025.
Coney Island, NY.-“Meet me by moonlight alone.”
13026.
37. 14th St. NY.
13026.
West Brighton Bach, Coney Island, NY.
13027.
No. 183. Mt. St. Vincent. Central Park. Before there was a park, however, there were nuns. In 1847 the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul arrived at the still-bucolic region of Manhattan and opened the Academy of St. Vincent, a school and convent. The nuns left when the area was incorportated into the park, however the building remained standing and utilized for several purposes. During the Civil War, it was briefly used as a hospital; later, it was a “restaurant and hostelry,” with some certainly spectacular views for guests. The stone chapel was even refashioned as an gallery for artwork and “stuffed specimens of animals of considerable value.” Unfortunately, the structures were destroyed in a fire in 1881.
13027.
263. Razzle Dazzle, Coney Island.
13028.
Liberty Statue, NY.
13028.
204. Shadows on Beach, Coney Island.
13029.
Washington Statue, Union Square, New York.
13029.
Drinking Fountain, Coney Island.
13030.
The New York City Hall During Centennial Week 1889.
13030.
The famous Coney Island, New York.
13030.
Central Park, NY.
13031.
Central Park. NY.
13032.
St. Johnland. Front of Mansion. In 1866, Protestant Episcopal Reverend William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796-1877) established St. Johnland to provide for the needs of the poor. The facility included buildings for elderly men, children, and young boys across 500 acres on the north shore of Suffolk County in the area now known as Kings Park. The general purpose was described at the time as “providing homes for the deserving and industrious poor who wish to escape the horrors of tenement houses; to afford a country refuge for the sick children of St. Luke’s Hospital… and to establish a home for old men, for whom, at the time the community was established, no place could be found but the Almshouse.” In 1870, The Society of St. Johnland was incorporated by the State of New York as a non-profit organization, governed by a voluntary Board of Trustees. Over the years, the original purpose of caring for the needy, young and old, was maintained. In the early 1950s, the Board of Trustees faced a dilemma: caring for the two disparate age groups required separate staffs. As much as the Board wanted to maintain the original purpose, they acknowledged that the quality of care would suffer if they did this. The Board resolved to specialize in care for the elderly. From that time until the mid-1970s, approximately 90 residents at any given time were cared for at St. Johnland. In the early 70s, the Board recognized the need to streamline the care by having one building as well as the need to upgrade the facility. Just after Christmas in 1975, the residents moved into the new and larger facility which is currently in use. Since that time, additional services have been added to the skilled nursing facility. In the 1990s, a Head Injury Rehabilitation Unit and an Alzheimer’s / Dementia Unit were added. A subacute care program was added in 2004. St. Johnland also provides services to those living at home in the community through two adult day care programs. Currently, St. Johnland accommodates more than 350 people each day with these services. The original philosophy of caring for the needy continues.