About This Item

  • TitleDo you remember?
  • Call NumberCONE_0523
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Do you remember?--Painting presented as one of the bright spots of summer-long Coney Island exhibit at Museum of the City of New York ... shows Steeplechase Park at the turn of the century. Done by an artist named McKay, whose given name is thought to have been Leo, the picture was begun in 1898 amd reworked in 1906. It is a gift to the Museum by Mrs. George C. Tilyou, widow of the amusement park's founder."
  • Date1898, published 1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsoil paintings (visual works)photographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped; Aug. 1, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMuseum of the City of New York
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAmusement parks
  • 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.