About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0151
  • TitleBaby Parade winner
  • SummaryYoung woman wearing white evening gown and tiara holding trophy cup standing in front of parade float with two young girls wearing Dutch costumes and prize ribbons; several spectators and trees in background. Caption: "Baby Parade winner--Called 'Tulip Time,' it won first prize at the Coney Island Mardi Gras as 'the most beautiful float' in the Baby Parade yesterday for Peggy McNamara, 5, of 503 Park Place, left, and Lynne Curran, 4, of 497 Park Place. That's the Queen of the Parade between them, Dorothy Dunne of 3224 Avenue I, at presentation of prizes in Ravenhall Park."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 14, 1947. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAwards ; Parades
  • 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