About This Item

  • Call NumberUNDE_0091
  • TitleConey Island boardwalk
  • SummaryAerial view. Large crowd on boardwalk, with cluster of strollers at railing in foreground peering down on group of twenty or so bathers gathered before tin-roofed shed; double-headed lampposts along boardwalk; jetties along beach in background; line of parked automobiles at left.
  • Date1924
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title and date from inscription on recto. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectBoardwalks [lctgm] ; Beaches ; Crowds ; Lampposts
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderIrving I. Underhill photograph collection