About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2453
  • Title[Gas station on Coney Island Avenue]
  • SummaryGas station on Coney Island Avenue with three Tydol gas pumps, two parked automobiles, and signs reading "Buy Tydol" and "Cars Washed"; station house at right; side of brick apartment building at rear; portion of street with shade trees and parked automobiles at left; tire marks in foreground.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 9/14/39. Title on verso; partially supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorNechemias, Milton
  • SubjectService stations ; Gasoline pumps ; Automobiles
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Midwood (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: Midwood: Neighborhoods