About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0265
  • Title[Boys in doghouse at Steeplechase Park]
  • SummarySix boys kneeling in doghouse at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, with Tommy, the midget clown, standing in left foreground, man wearing white hat, glasses and coat holding pipe in left hand and long stick in right hand standing in right foreground; playing card motif background in far left. This appears to be a tableau vivant, but the context is not ascertainable.
  • Date[195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: photographer's stamp. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorNisnoff, Harold J.
  • SubjectAmusement parks ; Tableaux
  • 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/Children