| Title: | Launching the big show |
| Description: | Young woman wearing white gown and tiara and three men wearing suits standing behind banquet table with portion of window and draperies in background. Caption: "Launching the big show--Helene Capone, Queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras, pins official insignia on Murray Handwerker, president of the Coney Island Carnival Company, and Mayor Wagner, right, at pre-parade dinner in Gargiulo's Restaurant. Look on is Borough Works Commissioner John J. Lynch, left." |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| Creator: | McNamara, C. E., photographer. |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 14, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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| Subject: |
Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910- [5] Parades [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 0152 |