About This Item

  • TitleConey Island
  • Call NumberCONE_0361
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryRendering (drawing): aerial view of Coney Island beach and amusement area as seen by several spectators standing on platform and stairs in foreground. Inscription: "Coney Island as viewed from the Observatory looking east as it was back in 1883. From a drawing by Charles Graham."
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: July 6/36. Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorGraham, Charles
  • SubjectAmusement parks ; Beaches ; Spectators [lctgm]
  • 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.