About This Item

  • Call NumberTHEA_0072
  • TitleWorkers ringing down the last curtain at Werba's Bklyn Theater
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (THEA 0070, THEA 0071), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three images documenting the razing of theater known variously as Werba's, Billy Minsky's Burlesque, Crescent, and Old Montauk and that stood at Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street.; 0070 shows portion of orchestra and balcony, with stencils of naked women and other decorations on walls; 0071 shows worker holding tattered curtain amid tangle of ropes on stage; 0072 shows same worker joined by two others and supervisor.
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso of 0071. On verso of 0071: date inscribed: Jan. 11/40. 0071 retouched.
  • SubjectTheaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wrecking -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Theatres: Montauk Theatre