About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0108
  • TitleBangup opening
  • SummaryCaption: "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."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 6, 1949. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBoardwalks ; Fireworks
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Coney Island: Fireworks