About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0331
  • TitleRuth Wilson
  • SummaryYoung woman wearing bathing suit and cap sitting in lawn chair partially submerged in water. Caption: "A hot day at George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park; pretty Ruth Wilson of Brooklyn keeps cool while reading her favorite newspaper [Brooklyn Eagle] in the Steeplechase pool."
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: June 20, 1948; photographer's stamp; Steeplechase Park stamp. Title from caption printed in pencil on verso.
  • CreatorNisnoff, Harold J.
  • SubjectLawn chairs ; Newspapers ; Swimming pools
  • 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: Steeplechase/Pool