About This Item

  • TitleNew Snyder Ave. court houses
  • Call NumberRUTT_0029
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree-story brick building with five arched windows on second floor and frieze between second and third floor reading, "Magistrates and Municipal Courts of the City of New York"; two wrapped columns, planks, and barrels at and around entrance; construction shed in left foreground; small boy in profile in right foreground. Inscription: "New Snyder Ave. court houses in Flatbush which will be formally opened by Boro Pres. Edw. Riegelman on Dec. 12, 1923 at 2 pm."
  • Date[1923?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: photographer's stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectCourthouses ; Building, Brick
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.