About This Item
- TitleModern magic on Brooklyn Heights
- Call NumberRUTT_0091
- Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (RUTT 0097, RUTT 0098, RUTT 0092, 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
- Finding AidView the finding aid
- 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.