About This Item

  • Title[Worker at Werba's Brooklyn Theater]
  • Call NumberTHEA_0068
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (THEA 0073), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two images of worker on dome of theater known variously as Werba's, Billy Minsky's Burlesque, Crescent, and Old Montauk that stood at Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street before being razed in 1940; 0068 (7 x 5 in.) shows worker applying paint to interior of dome; 0073 (8 x 10 in.) shows worker covering portion of dome with black surfacing.
  • Date[1940?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectTheaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.