About This Item
- TitleMardi Gras motion picture house destroyed by fire
- Call NumberCONE_0098
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryAerial view of section of amusement park with three fire trucks in foreground and many parked and moving automobiles and several pedestrians in background. Caption: "Smoke and a tangle of fire hoses marked Coney Island's main street today when the mardi Gras motion picture house at 1243 Surf Ave. was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin."
- Date1940
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
- Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteCropped: approximately 1/4 of original image appears to be missing. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 24, 1940. Title from caption on verso.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectAmusement parks ; Fires ; Streets
- 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.