About This Item

  • TitleConey Island, beach and bathers
  • Call NumberCONE_0379
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing. Figures on beach at Coney Island in formal 1880s attire; four men at left playing or observing undeterminable game-card; two women at right strolling with parasols; other figures in background, some in water; sailboats on horizon. Caption on recto: "Coney Island, from a barren stretch of beach, began to develop into a real pleasure resort after the close of the Civil War. The three-card monte man plied his calling unhampered by watchful police."
  • Date[188-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 6 x 5 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBeaches ; Cardsharping ; Amusements
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.