About This Item

  • Call NumberSTEEPLE_0024
  • TitleCarlos Comedy Circus
  • SummaryExterior view of a man riding a bull at Steeplechase Park Circus in Coney Island. image includes another man, perhaps Carlos, standing in the far right. The image is not dated, but the date is known to be between 1936 and 1938. Inscribed on recto, "To the best boys at the Steeplechase Circus from Charles Carlos."
  • Date[193-]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectAmusement parks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Bull riding -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsSteeplechase Park Circus photograph collection, 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: Steeplechase Park Circus