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Coney Island, Open air circus – Historic Print

Coney Island, Open air circus, n/a — historic photograph
Coney Island, Open air circus, n/a. Historic photograph from the Coney Island 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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Coney Island, Open air circus comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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An open-air circus at Coney Island, the Brooklyn seaside amusement district, is the subject of this glass negative, though the title comes from unverified caption data written by the Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain ran one of the earliest picture agencies in New York, supplying news photographs to newspapers in the early 1900s, and his files capture the crowds, rides and sideshows that drew large summer audiences to Coney Island. The record gives no firm date, so the image is best read as a glimpse of the park's heyday as a center of popular entertainment.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,772 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-10731

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