Pleasure wheel

Pleasure wheel
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Title: Pleasure wheel
Description:

Patented model of Pleasure wheel, an amusement ride, in wood-framed glass case in American Museum of Public Recreation in Coney Island.

Date: 1930?
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: typed label: "Model on exhibition at the American Museum of Public Recreation, Coney Island, New York. Patented by Lucas M. Campi of Havana, Cuba & N.Y.C., 1886. This is of the familiar ferris wheel type; the invention specifies a structure made up of cast members, also a double row of seats, one row on the outer circle and another row on the inner circle. The seats are devided [sic] into three seperate [sic] sections, one for each passenger."
Title from typed label on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Amusement rides
Models (Patents)
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 0188