About This Item


  • Title[Coney Island boardwalk]
  • Call NumberRUTT_0265
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (RUTT 0264, RUTT 0266, RUTT 0267, RUTT 0268), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five similar exterior views of a crowd of people standing on the Coney Island boardwalk the first Sunday after its official opening.
  • Date1922
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate inscribed on rectos: 10/29/22. Title from inscriptions on rector; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectBoardwalks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crowds -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • 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.