This is an original illustrated magazine article that has been carefully extracted from an 1897 issue of Metropolitan Magazine. A super article on the Coney Island of old with great old photos

Photos include:

• A bit of the Far East domiciled at Coney Island
• Athletically inclined women visitors trying their skill at ball throwing
• At Coney Island conventionalism is thrown to the winds and scenes like the above cause no comment
• The crowd in the streets of Cairo, Coney Island
• Warranted the simon-pure article, "Under License from the Sultan of Indies"
• Always an allurement for women--the Fortune Teller
• The famous Chutes
• A view typical of the utter bohemianism of the place
• and others

Title: Coney Island in Gala Dress by A.T. Colley

Length (includes front & back): 8 pages

Approximate Page Size (in inches): 6 x 9

Condition: VG to excellent (the atticpaper watermark does not appear on the actual article)