| Title: | Old folks beauty contest |
| Description: | Young woman and two elderly women wearing bathing suits standing on sidewalk with several people sitting and standing behind them. Caption: "A bevy of grandmas strutted and preened yesterday alongside the pool in Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, for the annual old folks beauty contest. ...Two of the grandma beauties are caught looking askance at a streamline 1937 model. Left to right, Dorothy Mattershead, 18, of 193 Quentin Road; Mrs. E. Bailer, 78, of 522 Stratford Road, and Mrs. Sophie Wager, 78, of 575 Ocean Ave." |
| Date: | 1943 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 11, 1943. Retouched. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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| Subject: |
Bathing suits [5] Beauty contests [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 0043 |