About This Item

  • Call NumberUNDE_0009
  • Title[Balmer's Great Atlantic Bathing & Swimming Baths]
  • SummarySection of Coney Island beach and amusement area with several people and cabanas on beach and Balmer's Great Atlantic Bathing & Swimming Baths, Steeplechase tower, and several other buildings in background.
  • Date1906
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title supplied by cataloger. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectBathhouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Beaches -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/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.
  • FolderIrving I. Underhill photograph collection