About This Item


  • Title[Grandma Bathing Beauty Contest]
  • Call NumberCONE_0039
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryGroup of elderly women wearing black dresses walking poolside, competing in Grandma Bathing Beauty Contest at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island; crowd in pool in foreground watching competition; street with several automobiles and commercial buildings in background.
  • Date[1936]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBeauty contests ; Swimming pools
  • 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.