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[Roller coaster at Coney Island, Cincinnati] – Vintage Print

[Roller coaster at Coney Island, Cincinnati] — historic print
[Roller coaster at Coney Island, Cincinnati]. Historic print from the Cincinnati collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Roller coaster at Coney Island, Cincinnati]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Roller coaster at Coney Island, Cincinnati]

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Coney Island in Cincinnati was not the New York beach resort of the same name but a riverside amusement park on the Ohio shore, reached by steamboat and streetcar from the city's east side. Its roller coaster was one of the park's main draws, part of a wave of early twentieth-century parks built to give working families cheap summer outings. This color halftone was produced by a photomechanical process that let printers reproduce photographs in ink on the page, so the card carries no date, but its method points to the period when such postcards and souvenir views circulated widely. Look for the steel framework and the crowd below, which show how central thrill rides were to urban leisure.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone, color.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,304 × 1,500 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125081

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