About This Item
- Title[Coney Island in 1862]
- Call NumberCONE_0380
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryDrawing. Beach scene at Coney Island; figures lounging on beach or wading and swimming in water; one-story bathhouse or similar wooden building in rear with figures looking out from windows and doorway (left) and emerging from changing rooms (right); wooden house on top of sand dune in background.
- Date1939
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 7 x 14 in.
- Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date inscribed: March 5/1939. Title supplied by cataloger. Torn extensively; right margin (5 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.) set off by crease.
- SubjectBeaches ; Sand dunes ; Bathhouses ; Crowds
- 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.