Elizabeth Kaiser and George C. Tilyou

Elizabeth Kaiser and George C. Tilyou
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Title: Elizabeth Kaiser and George C. Tilyou
Description:

Man standing on left and elderly woman standing on right holding trophy cup in right hand and floral bouquet in left hand. Caption: "70 year old Elizabeth Kaiser is judged the winner of the Grandma Bathing Beauty Contest at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island. Here she is being presented with the cup by George C. Tilyou. The contest held yesterday is the only of its kind and the only one that gives beautiful grandmas a break."

Date: [1940]
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: photographer's stamp ("Steeplechase Park courtesy photo").
Title from typed caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Awards
Beauty contests
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: CONE 0037