About This Item

  • Call NumberRUTT_0246
  • Title[Coney Island boardwalk]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (RUTT 0244, RUTT 0245), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three similar exterior, close-up views of men working on the construction of the Coney Island boardwalk. Inscriptions on rectos: 0244: "View of the floor beams foot of Ocean Parkway;" 0245: "Setting the floor beams on girders looking W.;" 0246: "General view looking E. showing section of floor beams."
  • Date1922
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on rectos: 9/1/22. Title from inscriptions on rectos; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectBoardwalks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Building construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Laborers -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, 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.
  • FolderEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection ; Folder: Coney Island boardwalk: 2