About This Item

  • TitleAt Coney Island
  • Call NumberCONE_0425
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo young women sitting on Coney Island beach. Caption: "...at Coney Island--[N]ancy O'Loane, left, p[as]tes ... ini[tia]ls of h[er] current favorite on her leg. A few hours of the beach at Steeplec[has]e Park allows [th]e sun to stencil them with a tan. Ase Ravem, right, is working [in] a question mark, a sign on indecision."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Jul[y] 26, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBeaches ; Suntan
  • 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.