| Title: | Not the way I weared 'em |
| Description: | Four elderly women wearing black dresses and three young women wearing bathing suits standing on boardwalk. Caption: "Not the way I weared 'em--Bathing beauties of an earlier day profess horror at the swimsuits of 1940 beauties. Lee Standard, Rose McLaughlin and June McGrath (left to right), in the ninth annual Grandma Bathing Beauty Contest at Steeplechase yesterday. Grandmother Elizabeth Kaiser, third from left, was the winner over 20 other contestants ranging in age from 50 to 80." |
| Date: | 1940 |
| 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: Jul[y] 31, 1940; photographer's stamp ("Steeplechase Park courtesy photo"). 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 0038 |