About This Item

  • TitleAtlantic Ave., looking east from Troy Ave
  • Call NumberRUTT_0093
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryElevated railroad tracks along length of street; debris and piles of dirt or sand beneath tracks; patches of dirty snow, three-story row houses, and pedestrians along street at left; industrial buildings and metal fence along street at right; portion of water tower in right background.
  • Date1920
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle and date (3/17/20) from inscription on recto.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectRailroads, Elevated
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.