About This Item

  • TitleTheater, Kings Highway
  • Call NumberTHEA_0045
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView from left of theater apparently nearing completion; temporary kiosk in front of theater reads, "A. H. SCHWARTZ . . . MOTION PICTURE THEATRE ON THIS SITE"; four men on fire escape along side of building; utility poles on sidewalk; cobblestone and trolley tracks in foreground; residential buildings behind scraggly trees in right background.
  • Date1921
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 9/21. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • SubjectTheaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Motion picture theaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire escapes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Midwood (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.