The Elephant Hotel in Coney Island

STEREOVIEW. Great hand-tinted and rare view taken from a utility yard (?) behind The Elephantine Colossus, otherwise known as the Elephant Hotel. Or as it is here comically misspelled: "The Eelephant, Cony Isl. [sic]". Published by T.W. INGERSOLL, St. Paul, Minn"............The seven story structure designed by James V. Lafferty stood above Surf Avenue and West 12th Street from 1885 until 1896, when it burnt down in a fire.

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