| Title: | Mardi Gras gets new queen |
| Description: | Caption: "Mardi Gras gets new queen--Black-haired Helene Capone, 18, of 363 Bay 8th St., is crowned queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras by Council President Abe Stark. Queen Helene succeeds Fran Littlepage, a Jersey City girl, who abdicated because of a heavy singing and modeling schedule. Helene, a senior at Bay Ridge high School, will preside over the six Mardi Gras parades beginning Monday evening." |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 10, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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| Subject: |
Parades [5] |
| 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 0141 |