About This Item

  • TitleModern magic on Brooklyn Heights
  • Call NumberRUTT_0098
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (RUTT 0097, RUTT 0092, RUTT 0091, RUTT 0090), some of which may also be described in this new record; Series of photographs showing sections of Brooklyn Heights before and after construction of portion of Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Caption: "Modern magic on Brooklyn Heights: Transformations which will be officially viewed when mile-long fourth link of the six-link Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, from Gowanus Parkway to Brooklyn Bridge, is opened to traffic Tuesday...."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteRetouched; grease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 21, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from captions on verso.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectExpress highways ; Roads -- Design and construction
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.