About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0122
  • TitleHow about a swim?
  • SummaryTwo young men and two young women wearing bathing suits running out of water onto Coney Island beach; pier support structure in background. Caption: "How about a swim? ... Here are a quartet [Iceberg Athletic Club] ... who braved the surf at Coney Island. Left to right--Edward Maier, Margaret George, Betty Lyna and Sam Kellman."
  • Date1934
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Nov. 21/34; "Eagle photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectBeaches ; Swimmers
  • 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: Iceberg Athletic Club