About This Item


  • TitleDe Kalb Theatre
  • Call NumberTHEA_0102
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (THEA 0020), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two exterior views, in different sizes, of the De Kalb Theatre located on DeKalb Avenue, near Broadway. Typed caption below image on recto of 0020: "De Kalb Theatre as it looked in 1911." Originally a vaudeville theater, it, presumably, later became a movie theater.
  • Date1911
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteInscribed on verso: "Brooklyn Eagle;" dates stamped on verso of 0100: Nov. 21, 1911. Title from inscriptions on versos.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectMotion picture theaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Theaters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.