About This Item


  • TitleConey Island parking
  • Call NumberUNDE_0090
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view of parking lot with scattered pedestrians and lines of automobiles amid empty spaces; buildings and billboards in background; small portion of boardwalk at far right; six or seven bathers sitting on ground before shed on strip between parking lot and boardwalk at bottom right.
  • Date1924
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title and date from inscription on recto. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectParking lots ; Automobiles
  • 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.