Title: | Billy Goat Mandy & Cannon Ball Richards |
Description: | Man wearing jacket and tie hitting man wearing undershirt in the stomach with a sledge hammer at Coney Island sideshow. |
Date: | [195-?] |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
On verso: "Billy Goat Mandy (Jim): hardest head; breaks rocks & can be hit over head with solid planks; Cannon Ball Richards (Frank): catches cannon ball in stomach." Title from inscription on verso. |
Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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Subject: |
Human curiosities [5] Sideshows [6] |
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 0249 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/c4d8651cfac1b50d11eb58c9be68552e&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Coney+Island+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Coney+Island
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Human curiosities
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Sideshows