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Starin's excursions

Description: Image of an advertisement for John H. Starin's island excursions. Includes perspective views of Manhattan Beach Hotel and the Oriental Hotel, as well as images of Starin's resorts at Alpine Grove, Glen Island, and New Rochelle. The central image depicts an image of Starin’s fleet of ships and steamboats on water, and other imagery includes people traveling to destinations on boats. Located on the left and right edges of the poster are two waving flags representing Star-in’s personal flag, abbreviated with a symbol of a star in place of lettering for his name.
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Date: approximately 1880
Call number: priJLC_TRAV_001449
Creator: Last, Jay T

Starin's Glen Island, N.Y. : Will open for the season of 1881, on Saturday, May 28th

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Image of an advertisement for John Starin's Glen Island in New York. The foreground image is of water filled with rowboats, sailboats, and tour boats. The background of the print shows Glen Island's Grand Pavilion and the Tower of Little Germany.

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Prospect Park & Coney Island Railroad ... excursion tickets, 40 cts

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Image of a poster with a central image of an elevated street view of the lawn, walkways, bandstand, covered fountain, and trees before the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad terminal on Coney Island in New York City, captioned "Grand Plaza and Promenade, terminus of the rail road on Coney Island," with a timetable, promotional descriptions, and seven additional vignettes of crowded scenes of people visiting Coney Island, including two top corner images of beach scenes; a top center image of the lawn, bandstand, and building captioned, “Grand view of 50 miles from observatory 300 feet high”, a lower center image of a steam locomotive with three open passenger cars, a bottom left image of the iron tower observatory, a bottom center image of the 1872 railroad station, captioned, “Brooklyn Depot, Ninth Avenue, 19th and 20th Streets, Greenwood”, with horse-drawn trolleys and carriage, and a bottom right image of a covered drinking fountain.

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Steamer Drew

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Image of the steamboat Drew sailing with passengers visible on three decks and people picnicking on the shore waving to the people on board; other vessels visible on the water; mountains in the distance.

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Image of an elevated landscape view of Crystal Lake near New Rochelle, New York, with trees, a boat, and mill in the foreground; the background contains village rooftops and trees to the left, and horses and people cutting ice on the frozen lake to the right.

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Image of the steamship Caledonia stranded on Cape Cod; people conversing in front of small buildings, including one with the sign "Hot coffee and meals at all hours," along the shore and an American flag waving on a flagpole visible in foreground.

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