| Title: | Hang your muffler on a hickory limb |
| Description: | Two men wearing bathing suits pulling woman wearing coat, gloves, and scarf toward water on Coney Island beach. Caption: "Hang your muffler on a hickory limb--Mary lou Creash, 17, an obstinately sane resident of 1433 E. 37th St., refuses to go near the water despite the urging of Edward (Chief Running Horse) Sorocki and James Callahan, secretary of the Iceberg Athletic Club of Coney Island. The Icebergs launched their 37th year of out-of-season swimming yesterday afternoon." |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 3, 1954. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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| Subject: |
Beaches [5] Swimmers [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 0419 |