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.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Aug. 13, 1944. Retouched. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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Subject: |
Amusement parks [5] Amusement rides [6] Fires [7] |
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 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/8f20ddd8ec234798ea420f3fb76c6c7e&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/a/Amusement parks
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/Amusement rides
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fires