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Collection - Kensington Hotel

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Collection

06-07 Amusement District Survey

1999 Digital Photos Project

Document Collection

Feinstein Collection

Motion picture collection

Parachute Jump Archive

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Photography collection

Postcard collection

Study Collection

Type

Architectural rendering

Book

Document

Documentary photograph

Manufacturer photograph

Manufacturer's catalogue

Map

Newspaper

Photograph

Postcard

Promotional flyer

Publicity photograph

Real-photo postcard

Stereoscopic view

Television

Video

Places

1205 Surf Avenue

1206 Surf Avenue (Childs Building)

1210 Surf Avenue

1214 Surf Avenue (Denny's Ice Cream)

1215 Surf Avenue (Coney Island Furniture)

1216-1218 Surf Avenue (Eldorado)

1220 Surf Avenue (Popper Building)

1222 Surf Avenue (Beer Lotto Grocery)

1228 Surf Avenue (Shore Hotel)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Abe Stark Skating Rink

Airship

Albemarle Hotel

Army Recruiting Station, middle of Stillwell Avenue, south side of Surf Avenue

Astroland

Astroland Shooting Gallery

Astrotower, The

Atlantic Yacht Club

Ballroom, The (Dreamland)

Ballroom, The (Luna Park (1903 - 1944))

Ballroom, The (Steeplechase)

Boardwalk (Brighton Beach)

Boardwalk at Stillwell Avenue, Looking East

Bois Blank

Bostock's

Bostock's, Surf Avenue Entrance

Bowery Entrance (Steeplechase Park)

Bowery, Looking East

Brighton Beach Hotel

Brightwater Towers

Canals of Venice

Chambers Drug Store

Childs Restaurant (Boardwalk)

Coasting Through Switzerland

Coney Island and Bath Beach Bank

Coney Island Beach

Coney Island Church and Rescue Home

Coney Island History Project @ Cyclone

Coney Island House

Coney Island Park

Coney Island Pavilion

Coney Island Reception Hospital

Connor's Imperial Music Hall

Corner of Surf Avenue and West 12th Street

Cow (Ice Cream Stand), The

Creation

Deep Rift Coal Mine

Dining Room on the Pier, The

Dreamland (1904-1911)

Eldorado carousel

End of the World

Entrance (Luna Park (1903 - 1944))

Feltman Brothers

Feltmans Deutscher Garden

Feltmans Pavilion

Feltmans Restaurant

Fighting Flames

Frankfurter Stand

Galveston Flood, The

Giant Racer, The

Glady's Chime Tower

Glen Echo

Grandma's Predictions Fortune Telling Machine

Gravesend

Great Musical and Scenic Railroad

Greater Coney Island

Grill House, The

Half Moon Hotel

Hell Gate

Henderson's Building

Henderson's Music Hall

Henderson's Restaurant

Henderson's Restaurant and Music Hall

Henderson's Walk

Hippodrome, The

Infant Incubators (in Dreamland)

Japanese Rolling Board Arcade Booth

Japanese Teahouse

Joe's Restaurant

Johnstown Flood Building

Kensington Hotel

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Keyspan Park parking lot

Kister Building

LA Thompson Scenic Railway

Lagoon (Dreamland)

Lambros Building

Lion Cage

Long Green

Lot on Southeast corner of Surf Avenue at West 12th Street

Lot on southwest corner, Bowery at Stillwell Avenue (Stauches)

Lot on Surf Avenue near Southeast corner of West 12th Street

Luna Park (1903 - 1944)

Luna Park (2010 -

Manhattan Beach

Manhattan Beach Hotel

McLochlin's West End Baths

Murray Zaret's Pet Festival

Nathan's Famous

Neptune Diving Bells

New York Aquarium

New York to the North Pole

North of Surf Avenue

Norton 's Point Rail Line - Railroad Avenue, at West 30th Street

Norton's Point Lighthouse

Norton's Point Rail Line at West 37th Street

Observatory, The

Ocean Pier

Ozark, The

Pabst Loop

Pain's Amphitheater

Paul Bauer's Hotel

Performance Stage (Luna Park (1903 - 1944))

Pete's Clam Stop

Pharaoh's Daughter

Playland

Prospect Candy Kitchen

Racetracks (Steeplechase Park)

Resurrection Side Show

Riegelmann Boardwalk

Rose Garden, The

San Francisco Earthquake

San Francisco Ride

Savin Rock

Sea Gate

Sea Gate Beach 4

Sea Gate Trolley Line - Surf Avenue (West End)

Sea Gate Trolley Line, Surf Avenue, near Stillwell Avenue

Sea Gate Trolley Line, Surf Avenue, near West 12th Street

Secondary Entrance (Surf Avenue)

Shaw's Bar

Shoot 'em Win Arcade

Shoot the Chutes (Dreamland)

Sky Rapids

Star Double Toboggan Racer

Stauch's Restaurant and Dance Hall

Steeplechase Park

Steeplechase Park Pool

Stratton's Walk

Stubbman Brothers Midway

Surf Apartments

Surf Avenue and Stillwell Avenue

Surf Avenue Entrance (Luna Park (1903 - 1944)

Surf Avenue Entrance (Steeplechase Park)

Surf Avenue entrance, Astroland

Surf Avenue, Looking East

Surf Avenue, Looking North

Surf Avenue, Looking West

Swimming Pool and Skating Rink (Steeplechase)

The Islander Coffee Shop Stand (in The Stilwell Avenue Subway Station)

Thunderbolt, The (1925-2000)

Tornado, The (1926-1977)

Tower Walk, The

Tower, The (Dreamland)

Tower, The (Luna Park (1903 - 1944))

Uncle Sam's Cannon Ride

Vanderveer Hotel

Washington Baths

West End

West Side of Steeplechase Park

Whip, The

Wilson and Kojan's Music Hall

Wolz Brothers Restaurant

Wooden Elephant, The

World Circus Sideshow

Wyckoff's Hotel

Ziz, The

Themes

aerial photographs

amphitheaters (built works)

amusement arcades

amusement parks

amusement rides

antiaircraft guns

aquariums (buildings)

avenues

balconies

ballrooms

banks (buildings)

banners

bars

bathhouses

batteries

beaches

billboards

black-and-white photographs

boardwalks

books

booths

brackets (structural elements)

brochures

buildings

bulldozers

bungalows

cafeterias

cages

carousels

carriages

casinos

chain link fences

churches

coaches (carriages)

color photographs

commercial buildings

components

construction workers

crosswalks

demolition

diners

doorways

entrances

facades

fast food restaurants

fences

fire insurance maps

fireworks (visual works)

floats (vehicles)

foundations (structural elements)

gardens

girders

hospitals

hotels

houses

housing

ice skating rinks

indoor swimming pools

inns

jetties (erosion protection works)

kitchens

lagoons

lobbies

local histories

mission churches

motion pictures (information artifacts)

motors

neighborhood parks

notes

oceans

organs (aerophones)

ovens

overpasses

pages

pantries

parks (grounds)

parkways

pavilions (building divisions)

photographic postcards

photographic prints

picture postcards

piers (marine landings)

pinhole cameras

pipes (conduits)

platforms

pool halls

postcards

print advertising

racetracks

roller coasters

sandblasting equipment

scaffolds

seamen

shooting galleries

sideshows

sidewalks

signage

slides (recreation equipment)

souvenirs

stages

stations

statues

stereoscopic photographs

stores

street lighting

street lighting units

streets

subway stations

teahouses

telephone booths

theaters

towers (single built works)

tracks

traffic signals

trailers

trucks

urban rail systems

walkways

Filtering by Kensington Hotel back to all

Coney Island in the 1920s

Study Collection

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