About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0589
  • TitleDreamland Social Club, Coney Island, season, 1924
  • SummaryGroup portrait before slatted wooden fence of performers and others (including several children) employed by Dreamland Circus Side Show at Coney Island; some in circus costume, some in civilian dress; bunting placed under two chairs in center foreground; some figures indentifiable, e.g., Violetta, the "armless and legless wonder" seated on chair in center of front row; dwarf known as "Baron Paucci" standing next to her; and circus barker or "talker" Lester Roberts in second row, fifth from right., Photograph donated by Marie Roberts.
  • Date1924
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsgroup portraitsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from label on recto. On recto: date labeled: 1924.
  • Creator[Unknown]
  • SubjectCircus performers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Circus workers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionMarie Roberts Dreamland Circus side show photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)Dreamland (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsMarie Roberts Dreamland Circus side show photographs
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Roberts, Marie