About This Item
- TitleDreamland entrance
- Call NumberWEML_0014
- Cite AsEugene Wemlinger photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryView of large group of people at the entrance to Coney Island's Dreamland. Image includes a very large statue of a woman, probably Eve, at the entrance with a large sign overhead, "Dreamland Creation," and a small building in far right foreground with two signs, "Zeller's Pharmacy," over entrance, and, at left, "Cigars at City Prices, Branch of Mutual Cigar Stores Co."
- Date1909
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteCollection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original plate glass negatives held by Brooklyn Museum. Title and date from typed caption on verso.
- CreatorWemlinger, Eugene
- SubjectAmusement parks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crowds -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Statues -- New York (State) -- New York
- 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.