About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0246
  • TitleBlanche Palmer & Clarence Rivers
  • SummaryWoman (Blanche Palmer) and man (Clarence Rivers) wearing white tunics; woman on left appears to be pouring "liquid air" into her right hand from a container in her left hand; man on right appears to be enveloped in smoke; this is apparently a kind of magic act.
  • Date[193-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: "Liquid air wonders." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectHuman curiosities [lctgm] ; Magicians
  • 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