Finishing touches

Finishing touches
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Title: Finishing touches
Description:

Four workmen standing in large shed painting boats used in Old Mill ride at Steeplechase Park; portion of circular, unidentified ride in background. Caption: "Finishing touches--The world's largest outdoor recreational enter is no[t without] its indoor havens, too. Rain or shine, Coney Island is an open-house affair, [day or] night--Spring, Summer or Fall. In the ... photograph, Steeplechase park wor[kmen] tidy up 'kiddie' sailboats for the new season."

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: On verso: caption stamped: May 6, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
On verso: "Old Mill boats being painted."
Retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Amusement rides
Boats and boating
Painters, Industrial
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 0292