About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0034
  • TitleMassive grandeur
  • SummaryView of Whitman Hall nearing completion on Brooklyn College campus; newly planted tree, bare soil, and construction debris in foreground. Caption: "Massive grandeur of new theater is evident in above picture. It seats 2,500, has two large lecture rooms, two rehearsal halls, each seating more than 200 persons."
  • Date1955
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 10, 1955; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn College ; Theaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Building construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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: Schools: Adult: Brooklyn College: Buildings: General