About This Item

  • TitleFun makers, Coney Island
  • Call NumberRUTT_0070
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySeven men and another person of unknown gender, four sitting, four standing, wearing ethnic and vocational costumes (clown, Indian chief, policeman, etc.) at Steeplechase Park in Coney Island; figure on far right has sign, "Turkey trot."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped and inscribed: July 7, 1912. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectCostumes [lctgm]
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • 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.