About This Item

  • Title[Rialto Theater]
  • Call NumberTHEA_0082
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryClose-up, exterior view of the Rialto Theater, with large neon sign, located at 1085 Flatbush Avenue. It opened in 1916 as a vaudeville theater, later becoming a movie theater. It closed circa 1977. The image is not dated.
  • Date[192-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 9 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteInscribed on verso: "Brooklyn Eagle." Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectMotion picture theaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Theaters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.