| Title: | Bangup opening |
| Description: | Caption: "Bangup opening--Not 'riders in the sky' but whistling fish grace the Coney Island heavens as a record crowd of 400,000 watch the season's first fireworks display [from boardwalk and beach] sponsored by the resort's Chamber of Commerce." |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 6, 1949. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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| Subject: |
Boardwalks [5] Fireworks [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 0108 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/f685c66b56a8ccdb985325b230cab667&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Coney+Island+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Coney+Island
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Boardwalks
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fireworks