About This Item
- TitleWere you here?
- Call NumberCONE_0058
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "Were you here?--This [aerial] photograph of the crowd which turned out at Coney Island [boardwalk and beach] last Sunday was taken from the parachute jump, recently moved from the World's Fair to Steeplechase Park. Police estimated that 800,000 persons were at the resort."
- Date1941
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
- Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 11, 1941; photographer's stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorSteeplechase Park Courtesy Photo
- SubjectBeaches -- New York (State) -- New York ; Boardwalks -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Crowds -- New York (State) -- New York
- 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.