About This Item

  • TitleEureka Baths, Coney Island, N.Y
  • Call NumberPOST_0102
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Postcard collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwelve or thirteen men standing before one-story building with large, arched portals, flags flying from roof, and "Eureka Baths" lettered over cornice; driver in open car at right; trolley tracks and cobblestone on road in foreground. Caption on verso: "Eureka Baths from Surf Avenue to Atlantic Ocean at 25th Street. Largest fire-proof bath house on Coney Island. 5000 Bath Houses."
  • Date[190-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 postcard : color ; 4 x 6 in.
  • Genrepostcards
  • NoteTitle from caption on recto. Retouched in color.
  • SubjectBathhouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Amusement parks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Postcard collection
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  • 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.