About This Item

  • TitleConey Island in the gay 90s
  • Call NumberCONE_0499
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CONE 0033, CONE 0498), some of which may also be described in this new record; Drawing. Crowd at beach at Coney Island in costume of 1890s; in foreground boy and girl riding donkeys beaten by companions with sticks, mother wading in water with two girls (one cut off) held by hand, two girls digging sand, three men observing a juggler or mountebank, peddler offering trinkets to three women; observatory, banners, tents, pavilions (one reading "Clam Chowder") in background.Caption: "Coney Island in the gay 90s was a little less crowded but quite as gay as it is today."
  • Date[189-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 8 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on recto. Retouched.
  • SubjectBeaches ; Donkeys ; Amusements ; Observatories
  • 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.