About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_0574
  • TitleGirl in bathing suit posing on Coney Island beach.
  • SummaryJo Ann Lombardi in two-piece bathing suit seated on overturned trash can on Coney Island beach, the boardwalk and Cyclone roller coaster in the background.
  • Date[between 1945 and 1949]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original photograph, [dimensions unknown], digitized on March 08, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Olga Nesi at Boys and Girls High School. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectGirls ; Teenagers ; Beaches ; Roller coasters
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.