| Title: | Mardi Gras motion picture house destroyed by fire |
| Description: | Aerial view of section of amusement park with three fire trucks in foreground and many parked and moving automobiles and several pedestrians in background. Caption: "Smoke and a tangle of fire hoses marked Coney Island's main street today when the mardi Gras motion picture house at 1243 Surf Ave. was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin." |
| Date: | 1940 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Cropped: approximately 1/4 of original image appears to be missing. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 24, 1940. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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| Subject: |
Amusement parks [5] Fires [6] Streets [7] |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Aerial views. 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 0098 |