Getting under way

Getting under way
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Title: Getting under way
Description:

Coney Island amusement park fire. Caption: "Getting under way--Big blaze first showed up as one of Coney's topnotchers as photographer, standing behind airplane ride, snapped this shot looking toward Dragon's Gorge, where fire started."

Date: 1944
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Aug. 13, 1944.
Retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Amusement parks
Amusement rides
Fires
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: CONE 0089