About This Item

  • TitleMardi Gras gets new queen
  • Call NumberCONE_0141
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Mardi Gras gets new queen--Black-haired Helene Capone, 18, of 363 Bay 8th St., is crowned queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras by Council President Abe Stark. Queen Helene succeeds Fran Littlepage, a Jersey City girl, who abdicated because of a heavy singing and modeling schedule. Helene, a senior at Bay Ridge high School, will preside over the six Mardi Gras parades beginning Monday evening."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 10, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectParades
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.