Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras
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Title: Mardi Gras
Description:

Ten young women wearing bathing suits sitting on boardwalk bench with Wonder Wheel in background. Caption: "Mardi Gras--The shapliest dolls in the metropolitan area are entered in competition for title of Queen of Coney Island's Mardi Gras to be held Sept. 13-19. with curvesome Sally Wile in front, they line up here at Steeplechase Pool. Behind Sally, left to right, are Elaine Gotsking, Gloria Cavallari, Sheilla Weiss, Sondra Poretz, Darlene Liotta, Tracy Powers, Muriel Webb, Ginger Jackson and Shirley Butte."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: aug. 25, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Amusement parks
Beauty contestants
Ferris wheels
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 0275