About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0406
  • Title[Policeman warns man at Coney Island beach]
  • SummaryUniformed policeman points finger at man with bare chest sitting on beach; several sunbathers standing in background. Caption: "It was only three years ago that men bathers at Coney [Island] who dropped the shoulder straps of their suits were warned or arrested, as in the photo."
  • Date[194-]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso; date inscribed: "c.1940's." Retouched. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBathing suits ; Beaches ; Police
  • 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 - 1940's