Men's Club at Point View Resort

Collection: This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs

Date: ca. 1900; 1895 Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver print Dimension: 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Identifier: aql:12048 jfw-000192 jfw-000192.tif

Description: Members of an unidentified men's organization pose for a group portrait during an outing at Witzel's Point View Island, a resort and amusement park on what is now Tallman Island on Long Island Sound, just west of the present-day Whitestone Bridge. A number of men in front wear marching band uniforms; drums are seen at left and right, and a large American flag is behind the group. One man, seated just right of center in the third row from the front, is holding a baseball and baseball mitt. A nearly identical photograph of this same group is seen in record jfw-000206.

Title : Men's Club at Point View Resort

Collection : aql:11775; vital:1

Creator : Jacob F. Wieners, Jr.

Date : ca. 1900; 1895

Summary/Description : Members of an unidentified men's organization pose for a group portrait during an outing at Witzel's Point View Island, a resort and amusement park on what is now Tallman Island on Long Island Sound, just west of the present-day Whitestone Bridge. A number of men in front wear marching band uniforms; drums are seen at left and right, and a large American flag is behind the group. One man, seated just right of center in the third row from the front, is holding a baseball and baseball mitt. A nearly identical photograph of this same group is seen in record jfw-000206.

Subject : Working-men's clubs; Marching bands; Men; Portraits, Group

Relation : This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Point View Island (now Tallman Island), Flushing, NY College Point (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white negative; black and white print; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver print; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:12048 jfw-000192 jfw-000192.tif