About This Item

  • TitleMetropolitan Opera House
  • Call NumberWILC_0307
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryExterior view of the Metropolitan Opera House located at 1411 Broadway, between West 39th Street and West 40th Street. This building closed on April 16, 1966, and the new Metropolitan Opera Hosue opened at Lincoln Center on September 16, 1966.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 17b. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectMetropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) ; Opera houses -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceNew 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.