About This Item


  • Title12th & New Utrecht Aves
  • Call NumberRUTT_0114
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo streets intersecting on diagonal beneath elevated subway line; trolley tracks and cobblestone in foreground; portion of road unpaved; barber's pole, dentist's sign and storefronts (some with signs in Hebrew or Yiddish) along sidewalk at right; baby carriage and solitary child near barber's pole; bare trees and telephone poles along receding street; some pedestrians on road in background.
  • Date1919
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle and date (1/22/19) from inscription on recto.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectStreet-railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads, Elevated ; Cobblestones ; Barbershops
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New Utrecht (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.