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The Children's Friend, a Balloon Merchant at Coney Island, N.Y. – Antique Print

The Children's Friend, a Balloon Merchant at Coney Island, N.Y., c1904. — historic photograph
The Children's Friend, a Balloon Merchant at Coney Island, N.Y., c1904.. Historic photograph from the Ballooning 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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This historic photograph of The Children's Friend, a Balloon Merchant at Coney Island, N.Y. brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Vendors selling toy balloons were a familiar sight along the boardwalk and beaches of Coney Island, the Brooklyn amusement resort that drew large crowds in the early 1900s, and this stereograph captures one under the title "The Children's Friend." The card was issued by the H.C. White Company, a publisher of stereo views that sold cards for viewing in hand-held stereoscopes at home. The catalog tags attached to the record describe the seller as an African American woman, though that caption data is unverified and worth checking against other sources. Stereographs like this one show how street trades were recorded for a home audience around 1904.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 498. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Women--Employment; African American women; NY--NYC--C- I-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 811 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133198

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