About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0139
  • TitleOld 1842 rolls again
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CONE 0140), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views: Caption: "Old 1842 rolls again--Time turns backward 112 years this week at the annual Mardi Gras at Coney Island as the famous ... parade gets underway headed by a reproduction of the typical American railroad train of the period around 1842. ..." 0139: "Photo shows, left to right, John F. Bockelmann, senior vice president, The Schaefer Brewing Company, Miss Travelers Aid (Miss Rosalynd Lowe of Brooklyn), and John J. Schwartz, director of fund raising for the Travelers Aid Society. ..." 0140 shows an unidentified young man standing up on the running board cleaning the engine exterior.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sept.] 16, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Photographer's name on typed caption on verso. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBarber & Baar
  • SubjectAmusement parks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Festivals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad trains -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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