Street scene, Coney Island – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Street scene, Coney Island comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Street scene, Coney Island
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Coney Island's boardwalk and amusement district on the Brooklyn shore drew crowds from across New York City in the early twentieth century, and this print records one of its busy streets around the 1910s. The record gives only a rough date, "ca. 191-," taken from an old caption card, so the exact year is uncertain. In those decades the resort was packed with rides, arcades, and food stands, and streets like this one carried a steady flow of day-trippers. Photographs of the district from this period are useful for seeing how the crowds, storefronts, and street life fit together.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | ca. 191-. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Amusement parks--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,019 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125080 |
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