POTW: Happy Halloween

Tess Colwell

[Children in horror costumes], 1984, v1992.48.55, Anders Goldfarb photographs of Coney Island, v1992.48; Brooklyn Historical Society. [Children in horror costumes], 1984, v1992.48.55, Anders Goldfarb photographs of Coney Island, v1992.48; Brooklyn Historical Society.
With Halloween just around the corner, we wanted to bring you one of the spookier photographs from our collections. The photo of the week is a portrait of two kids wearing Halloween costumes in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1984.

This photograph comes from the Anders Goldfarb photographs of Coney Island collection comprised of 68 black-and-white photographs of Coney Island in 1984. Anders Goldfarb is a Brooklyn-born documentary photographer based in New York City. The photographs in this collection document Coney Island’s beaches, boardwalk, amusements, and includes portraits of residents and visitors. To see more photographs from this collection, check out this gallery. You can view even more of his work at his personal website.

Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images. Interested in seeing even more historic Brooklyn images? Visit our Brooklyn Visual Heritage website here. To search BHS’s entire collection of images, archives, maps, and special collections visit BHS’s Othmer Library Wed-Sat, 1:00-5:00 p.m. library@brooklynhistory.org

 

This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.

 

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