About This Item

  • Title[Coney Island in 1862]
  • Call NumberCONE_0380
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing. Beach scene at Coney Island; figures lounging on beach or wading and swimming in water; one-story bathhouse or similar wooden building in rear with figures looking out from windows and doorway (left) and emerging from changing rooms (right); wooden house on top of sand dune in background.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 7 x 14 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: March 5/1939. Title supplied by cataloger. Torn extensively; right margin (5 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.) set off by crease.
  • SubjectBeaches ; Sand dunes ; Bathhouses ; Crowds
  • 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.