About This Item
- TitleCurtain falls on landmark theater
- Call NumberTHEA_0085
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryWorker standing in ruins of burlesque theater that stood at 389-397Jay Street and looking up toward exposed roof; second worker bending over debris on upper balcony in background. Caption: "CURTAIN FALLS ON LANDMARK: Star Theater is being torn down to make way for new Fulton Savings Bank."
- Date1948
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Mar 26, 1948; "Eagle staff photo."
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectTheaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wrecking -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- 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.