About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0202
  • TitleRe-enact purchase of Coney Island from Indians
  • SummaryCaption: "Re-enact purchase of Coney Island from Indians--The purchase of Coney Island by the Dutch from the Indians is re-enacted at a luncheon celebrating the 300th anniversary of the event at Garguilo's Restaurant, W. 15th St. and Mermaid Ave. Oscar Schneider and George L. Right and John McDonald as Jo WIlson hand over two guns and three pounds of 'gunpowder' with Jules One Arrow and Chief Earl Two Bears as the Indians, as part of the purchase price for the land. At the right is Mrs. Tracy S. Voorhees, wife of the former Undersecretary of the Army, whose ancestor Stephen voorhees was clerk of the old town of Gravesend and who signed the originan purchse document."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 8, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHistorical reenactments -- New York (State) -- New York ; Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
  • 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: Restaurants