About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0587
  • TitleBarkers and others at Coney Island
  • SummaryTwo barkers or "talkers" standing in ten-cent admission booths (left and right) at Dreamland Circus Side Show at Coney Island; other circus workers and performers (some in costume) standing or crouching between the two booths, all looking into camera; man in double breasted suit at right identifiable as chief barker Lester Robert; banner behind them reads, "WORLD'S SMALLEST [illegible].", Photograph donated by Marie Roberts.
  • Date[1924?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • Creator[Unknown]
  • SubjectCircus -- New York (State) -- New York ; Circus performers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Circus workers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionMarie Roberts Dreamland Circus side show photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)Dreamland (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsMarie Roberts Dreamland Circus side show photographs
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Roberts, Marie