Coney Island 1906 #4 – Dreamland Park, Sanborn Map, Detailed Poster

Description: These are simply the best posters available! You will be thrilled with the image quality, vivid colors, fine paper, and unique subjects. This is an original image that has been transformed into a beautiful poster - available exclusively from Landis Publications.OUR POSTERS ARE SIZED FOR STANDARD OFF-THE-SHELF FRAMES, WITH NO CUSTOM FRAMING REQUIRED, PROVIDING HUGE COST SAVINGS!This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original 1906 Sanborn Fire Map for Dreamland Park, at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. This is one of 5 maps in an extraordinary collection of posters showing the details of the amazing amusement centers of Coney Island, in the early 1900’s. The maps show amusement park rides, bath houses, hotels, eateries, dance and concert halls, municipal facilities, and more.Additional maps IN THIS COLLECTION can be purchased at a discount, and can used to create a beautiful display of turn-of-the-century artistic maps.The Sanborn Map Company was founded in 1867 by civil engineer and surveyor Daniel A. Sanborn. The company produced specialized maps that could be used by insurance companies to assess fire risks in urban areas.The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.The 24"x36" format is an excellent image size that looks great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as a grouped visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of 24"x36" frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online.A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!HISTORY OF CONEY ISLAND AND DREAMLAND PARKBetween about 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States, attracting several million visitors per year. Its development as an amusement area was concurrent with the erection of urban amusement parks elsewhere in the United States, which changed amusement from a passive to an active concept. Of these amusement areas, Coney Island was the largest. At its height, it contained three competing major amusement parks—Luna Park, Dreamland, and Steeplechase Park—as well as many independent amusements in the area known as The Bowery District.The area was also the center of new technological events, with electric lights, roller coasters, and baby incubators among the innovations at Coney Island in the 1900s. By the first decade of the 20th century, Coney Island was seen as a top getaway and "a symbol of Americans' increasing pride.”DREAMLAND PARKDreamland was an amusement park at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, which operated from 1904 to 1911. It was the last of the three original large parks built on Coney Island, along with Steeplechase Park and Luna Park.The park was founded by William H. Reynolds, a former state senator and successful Brooklyn real estate developer. He designed the park to compete with Luna Park, a neighboring amusement park that opened in 1903.Opened on May 15, 1904, Dreamland was a park in which everything was reputed to be bigger, and more refined than neighboring Luna Park. Dreamland had a larger central "Tower" and one million electric light bulbs illuminating and outlining its buildings, four times as many lights as Luna Park.Among Dreamland's attractions were a railway called “Coasting Through Switzerland” that ran through a Swiss alpine landscape; imitation Venetian canals with gondolas; a human zoo called the "Lilliputian Village" with three hundred dwarf inhabitants; a Filipino village featuring Igorot people in native dress, although many of the Filipinos were not Igorot and few Filipinos dressed this way by 1911. There was a huge firefighting demonstration in which two thousand people pretended to put out a blazing six-story building fire every half-hour. There were also two Shoot-the-Chutes with two ramps that could handle 7,000 hourly riders and a simulated submarine ride.Dreamland was destroyed by a devasting fire on May 27, 1911. The park was never rebuilt, and the land was later sold to the City of New York.Today, the 15-acre site of the former park is located near the West Eighth Street subway station opposite Culver Depot, the then-terminal of New York City Subway's BMT Brighton Line and BMT Culver Line.

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Location: Wrightwood, California

End Time: 2025-02-14T06:30:40.000Z

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