On the Iron Pier, Coney Island. The rush for the last boat

Ogden's illustration is of passengers on one of the two Iron Piers built in 1878 on Coney Island. Here the illustration attempts to capture the sheer amount of people that would await the steamboats-in the year of the art's creation almost 2 million people arrived at the resort by boat. Every tourist pictured is also in fine dress, giving a basis for Jon Sterngass' view of both Coney Island and its transportation areas as a place of anonymity within a city-like structure and to both see and be seen by the mass of strangers presenting themselves at their best. - Bradford Gladstone

Henry Alexander "H.A." Ogden

Harper's Weekly

Brooklyn Museum

July 20, 1882

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