About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0148
  • TitleMardi Gras mood
  • SummaryCaption: "Mardi Gras mood--Mayor Impellitteri turns over document proclaiming Sept. 8 to 12 as Coney Island Mardi Gras Week to W. Kenneth Bourke, president of Coney Island Carnival Company. Mayor has been asked to serve as grand marshal for the onetime annual celebration which has not been held since 1948."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 13, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectParades ; Proclamations
  • 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: Mardi Gras