About This Item

  • TitleOld folks beauty contest
  • Call NumberCONE_0043
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryYoung woman and two elderly women wearing bathing suits standing on sidewalk with several people sitting and standing behind them. Caption: "A bevy of grandmas strutted and preened yesterday alongside the pool in Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, for the annual old folks beauty contest. ...Two of the grandma beauties are caught looking askance at a streamline 1937 model. Left to right, Dorothy Mattershead, 18, of 193 Quentin Road; Mrs. E. Bailer, 78, of 522 Stratford Road, and Mrs. Sophie Wager, 78, of 575 Ocean Ave."
  • Date1943
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 11, 1943. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBathing suits ; Beauty contests
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.