About This Item

  • Call NumberTHEA_0090
  • TitleUniversal Theatre
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (THEA 0089), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two architectural renderings, in different sizes, of the Universal Theatre located at 4515 New Utrecht Avenue. It was both a vaudeville theater and a movie theater. Note: The 16th Street Theater, located at 166 16th Street, was also known as the Universal Theater.
  • Date1927
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso of 0089: Nov. 27/27. Images are identical except 0089 is cropped and retouched. Printed in lower right corner on verso of 0090: "John Eberson, architect, New York City." Title from caption below image on verso of 0090.
  • SubjectMotion 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
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Theatres: Universal Theatre