Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CONE 0499, CONE 0033), some of which may also be described in this new record; Drawing. Crowd at beach at Coney Island in costume of 1890s; in foreground boy and girl riding donkeys beaten by companions with sticks, mother wading in water with two girls (one cut off) held by hand, two girls digging sand, three men observing a juggler or mountebank, peddler offering trinkets to three women; observatory, banners, tents, pavilions (one reading "Clam Chowder") in background.Caption: "Coney Island in the gay 90s was a little less crowded but quite as gay as it is today."