About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0348
  • TitleBrinks car delivers 100,000 tokens
  • SummaryYoung man sitting inside and older man standing outside truck with back door open; both are holding pistols; pile of while bags on truck floor; several boys and girls, on each side, look at men and bags. Caption: "Some of the youngsters at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island look on as the Brinks armored car delivers the 1st 100,000 transit tokens which the Steeplechase mgt. will make available for its patrons and employees at 2 for a quarter commencing today, Thursday, August 6th."
  • Date[1953]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption written in ink on verso.
  • SubjectPistols ; Tokens ; Trucks
  • 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: Steeplechase/Tokens