Launching the big show

Launching the big show
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Title: Launching the big show
Description:

Young woman wearing white gown and tiara and three men wearing suits standing behind banquet table with portion of window and draperies in background. Caption: "Launching the big show--Helene Capone, Queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras, pins official insignia on Murray Handwerker, president of the Coney Island Carnival Company, and Mayor Wagner, right, at pre-parade dinner in Gargiulo's Restaurant. Look on is Borough Works Commissioner John J. Lynch, left."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: McNamara, C. E., photographer.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 14, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910-
Parades
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 0152