[Policeman warns man at Coney Island beach]

[Policeman warns man at Coney Island beach]
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Title: [Policeman warns man at Coney Island beach]
Description:

Uniformed policeman points finger at man with bare chest sitting on beach; several sunbathers standing in background. Caption: "It was only three years ago that men bathers at Coney [Island] who dropped the shoulder straps of their suits were warned or arrested, as in the photo."

Date: [194-]
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso; date inscribed: "c.1940's."
Retouched.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Bathing suits
Beaches
Police
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 0406