About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0158
  • Title1953 Coney Island Mardi Gras
  • SummaryNight view: two men wearing suits sitting in back seat of convertible automobile and Black man wearing uniform sitting in driver's seat; banner attached to antenna: "Mid-County Buick;" banner attached to driver's door: "1953 Grand Marshal." Caption: "1953 Coney Island Mardi Gras, September 7-13. Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri, Honorary Grand Marshal of the Mardi Gras parade and W. Kenneth Bourke, chairman of the Mardi Gras Committee, ride in lead car of the Parade."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsnight photographyphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 11, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. On verso: "On Surf Av. almost in front o[f] Nathan's." Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectImpellitteri, Vincent R. (Vincent Richard), 1900-1987 ; Automobiles ; Parades
  • 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: Mardi Gras