About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0249
  • TitleBilly Goat Mandy & Cannon Ball Richards
  • SummaryMan wearing jacket and tie hitting man wearing undershirt in the stomach with a sledge hammer at Coney Island sideshow.
  • Date[195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: "Billy Goat Mandy (Jim): hardest head; breaks rocks & can be hit over head with solid planks; Cannon Ball Richards (Frank): catches cannon ball in stomach." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectHuman curiosities [lctgm] ; Sideshows
  • 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: Sideshows & freaks