About This Item

  • TitleSomething new under the Sun
  • Call NumberTHEA_0050
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySix women posing on beach before chain link fence, each with sign pinned on bathing suit reading, "WILD NORTH SEE IT AT LOEWS." Caption on verso: "SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: Bevy of Brooklyn bathing beauties pose at Brighton Beach with, of all things, snowshoes. They staged a snowshoe sand race, inspired, they said, by M.G.M. picture 'The Wild North,' now at Loew's Theaters. Left to right, front, are Leonore Seeman, Blossom Kagan and Lee Kay; rear, Elaine Sloane, Kay Jubon and Delores Morris."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jul 17, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Copy 1 retouched, with grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBathing suits -- New York (State) -- New York ; Snowshoes and snowshoeing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.