70 vintage Coney Island beach, boardwalk & amusement park scenes (1890s-1920s)

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Antique Coney Island photo album from 1890

Streetview of Coney Island, looking northeast (1890)

Manhattan Beach & Oriental Hotel at Coney Island (1890)

Bathing Pavilion & Piazza Manhattan Beach Hotel (1890)

Bathing by electric light at Manhattan Beach (1890)

Manhattan Beach Hotel & Music Pavilion (1890)

Manhattan Beach Hotel & Music Pavilion from the north (1890)

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Brighton Beach Hotel (1890)

Coney Island and Prospect Park & Lower Iron Pier in West Brighton (1890)

Paul Bauer’s Hotel, West Brighton & Coney Island elephant (1890)

Dining room at the Sea Beach Palace & Upper Iron Pier, West Brighton (1890)

Sea Beach palace railroad depot (1890)

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Antique Coney Island photo from 1897: Ocean swimming

Bathing – swimming in the ocean – at Coney Island NY 1900

Coney Island, New York’s most popular beach resort c1900

In the dashing spray of old ocean’s waves, at Coney Island c1900

Vintage amusement park – Shooting the rapids, Coney Island, N.Y. c1900

About Coney Island (text from around 1923)

Coney Island is the playground of New York City, and is one of the most popular resorts in the United States. It is in the borough of Brooklyn, and is about five miles in length and from half to three-quarters of a mile in width.

It is very easily reached by fast subway express trains, trolley, also by boat and buses, which make very interesting trips.

The new boardwalk is wide enough to accommodate the multitude of people that flock there to enjoy the cool breeze.

Coney Island has many places of amusement. Steeplechase and Luna Park are the most important, which attract hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. The most daring feats of skill, the most magnificent spectacles, the most novel and unique rides are procured by these famous parks at great expense.

No one who is within striking distance of New York City fails to go to Coney Island to enjoy a walk on the new wide boardwalk or take a dip in the surf or take in one of the many amusements.

Coney Island and Brooklyn, N.Y. illustrated (c1923)

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Bathing at Coney Island, New York (1900)

Coney Island in the early 1900s

On the beach at Coney Island (1902)

Coney Island, NY (1905)

Coney Island Beach & Surf Avenue (1913)

Coney Island beach and boardwalk (1926)

Scene on the beach (1890s)

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Categories: 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, Old cities and places, Old photos & vintage photography, Summer, Vintage sports

Tags: 1890, 1897, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1913, 1923, 1926, amusement park, beach, new york, travel, vacation

Added or last updated: August 3, 2019

2 Responses

Susan Harris says:

January 15, 2020 at 6:25 am

I’m confused. Is this a book I can order? I would love to buy it.

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1. Click Americana says:
  
  January 16, 2020 at 3:22 am
  
  No, I’m sorry – this article is just here to show the old photographs. But here is one book you may like! It’s Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008.
  
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