About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0417
  • TitleDon't do it
  • SummaryCaption: "Don't do it--Michael Dockery, a Coney Island lifeguard, practices, as he sits in lifeguard tower, blowing the whistle to warn bathers they are out too far in the surf or to cut out some kind of mischief."
  • Date1954
  • 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: Jun[e] 16, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLifeguards
  • 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: Beach - 1950's I