Launching the big show
| 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.) Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)  | 
		
| 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						
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| Subject: | 
			
				Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910- Parades  | 
		
| 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 | 

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