A recent item from a larger steamboat ephemera collection caught my eye. A ticket (punched, therefore used) for travel from Harlem to Coney Island.
Note that the ticket uses N.R. (North River) rather than Hudson River – North River was a more common term, used in the 19th century.
The interesting name “Iron Steamboat Co” evokes both durability and (at the time) modernity, while also (now) sounding heavy, slow, and antiquated.
The steamship would have left from the docks by the former Fairway supermarket, and run only in the summer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/333916248448?ul_noapp=true
I’m not sure what the fare would have been in 1918, but the ticket today is $40.
