About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0349
  • TitleIt's fun to save money
  • SummaryCaption: "It's fun to save money--Snuffy Miller, a clown at Steeplechase Park, and Eve Birnkammer, a lifeguard at the Coney Island amusement center, pose with some of the 100,000 subway tokens which the Steeplechase management today began to make available to patrons at the rate of 2 for 25 cents."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Aug. 6, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectClowns ; Lifeguards ; Tokens
  • 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: Steeplechase/Tokens