About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0376
  • TitleMiss Ray makes wax figure
  • SummaryCaption: "Miss [Marian] Ray demonstrates how she makes the wax figures from a plaster mold." The specific location is presumably the workshop of the Eden Musee, a Coney Island wax museum.
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped and cutout. On verso: date inscribed: Aug. 11/37. On verso: "Coney Island;" "Eden." Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectWax figures ; Waxworks
  • 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: Wax Museum (Eden Musee)