About This Item
- TitleView of Coney Island
- Call NumberWEML_0015
- Cite AsEugene Wemlinger photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummarySection of Steeplechase Park, a Coney Island amusement park with carousel in foreground and two signs, "Chanticleer" and "Bathing, 25 c[ents]," and large building, possibly entrance to park, with several large signs including "George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park" on roof.
- Date1903
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1903. Title from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
- CreatorWemlinger, Eugene [photographer]
- SubjectAmusement parks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Merry-go-round -- 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.