About This Item

  • Call NumberLEWI_0001
  • TitleConey Island fire
  • SummarySeveral people, mostly men, walking on snow-covered Coney Island beach with charred remains of boardwalk, long pipe (possibly a sewer line), and portions of several large wooden supports in foreground and several buildings destroyed by fire in background.
  • Date1903
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1903. Title from inscription on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorLewis, H. S. [photographer]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Snow -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsH. S. Lewis photograph collection, 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.
  • FolderH. S. Lewis photograph collection