Marie Davis

Marie Davis
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Title: Marie Davis
Description:

Caption: "Marie Davis, 19-year-old model of 454 6th St., is pictured getting set for a plunge into the Steeplechase Park outdoor swimming pool, which is the largest of its kind on the Atlantic Coast. Miss Davis won the Coney Island Modern Venus contest last year at George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park;" several spectators are standing in background.

Date: 1937
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Cropped: small section of bottom and right margins missing.
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: date inscribed: July 7/37; Publicity Dept., Steeplechase Park (photographer?) stamp.
On verso: "Home Talk."
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Beauty contestants
Swimmers
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 0286