About This Item

  • Call NumberTHEA_0080
  • TitleOld S & S Republic Theater
  • SummaryCaption: "Old S & S Republic Theater offered five all-star vaudeville acts as well as feature photoplays in 1928. Lew Preston was manager and R. Wernick, assistant manager, then." The image is an advertisement for the S & S (Small & Strassberg) Circuit Republic Theatre located at the intersection of Keap Street and Grand Street in Williamsburg. It opened on October 27, 1921 as a vaudeville theater. It was, later, a movie theater. It closed sometime in the 1950's.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreadvertisementsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Oct. 3, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAdvertising -- New York (State) -- New York ; Motion picture theaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Theaters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Theatres: (S & S) Rebublic Theatre