About This Item

  • TitleWindow of East Ocean Vista Hall
  • Call NumberCONE_0024
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior view from an architectural model of the proposed New York Aquarium in Coney Island. Three visitors (woman, child, and man) look out window of East Ocean Vista Hall. Label: "Window of East Ocean Vista Hall in the new Aquarium. Looking south across the boardwalk at Coney Island to the Ocean. Just outside the large window, which is 49 feet high and 43 feet wide, is the outdoors Porpoise Tank, 60 feet long and averaging 40 feet wide. (Photographed from a model of the Aquarium)."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 11 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Dec. 9, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from label on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectNew York Aquarium ; Aquariums ; Windows
  • 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.