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1116 Avenue J
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Butcher shop on Avenue J: "Shop with Confidence," July 20, 1958.
Vitaphone Studios
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Vitaphone Studios The Vitagraph Studios were considered leaders in the art of the silent movie in the early years of the 20th century. Between 1898 and 1926 the studio turned out hundreds of films that enthralled audiences nationwide. Vitagraph was bought by Warner Brothers in 1925, and in 1928 they created a subsidiary that they called Vitaphone to exploit the new field of talkies. The first production was a short film showing the New York Philharmonic. The discovery in the Eagle morgue files is a group of 8 photographs of the Vitaphone Studios dating from the 1920s and 1930s. Specializing in short movies, the Vitaphone studios often employed vaudeville stars and well-known musicians.
Holly(Mid)wood: The Vitagraph Studios
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Founded in Brooklyn by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E Smith in 1897, Vitaphone Studios was once a major player in the movie business.
1501 Avenue J
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1501 Avenue J, 1958. This corner view from 1958 shows the usual suspects that make up this south Brooklyn neighborhood commercial thoroughfares: barber shops, dry cleaners, clothing stores, and banks. The bank building at no. 1505 is occupied at this time by a Manufacturers Trust Company Bank. Today is it a Valley National Bank.
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1110 Avenue K
\[Coney Island Avenue at Avenue K, Brooklyn, NY] Looking north on the trolley tracks of Coney Island Avenue at Avenue K, Brooklyn, NY.
1111 Avenue K
\[Coney Island Avenue at Avenue K, Brooklyn, NY] Coney Island Avenue at Avenue K, Brooklyn, NY. Northward view of multiple trolley lines. Also showing numerous cars, pedestrians, and shops.
Public School 99
PS 99 Aerial view of PS 99, a large, four-story brick building located at 1120 East 10th Street, with portions of attached buildings on both sides and portion of building and parked wagon in left foreground.
1116 Avenue J
\[Padows Pharmacy, Avenue J (at left).] Padows Pharmacy, Avenue J (at left.)
1202 Avenue J
\[Southeast corner of Avenue J and East 12th Street.] Southeast corner of Avenue J and East 12th Street. Beas Lunch, #1202 Avenue J on corner.
1308 Avenue J
\[South side of Avenue J.] South side of Avenue J. Corner of East 13th Street at far right. Harry Geier Son, #1302-4 Avenue J.
1057 East 15th Street
\[View of east side of E. 15th Street.] View of east side of E. 15th Street between Avenue J and Avenue K. First house (partially obscured to right of large apartment house is #1057 E. 15th Street. View looking south.
1013 East 15th Street
\[Looking north along East 15th Street towards corner of Avenue J (at far left).] Looking north along East 15th Street towards corner of Avenue J (at far left.) #1013 (first building at right) is Taharath Israel of Flatbush.
1502 Avenue J
\[View of east side of East 15th Street.] View of east side of East 15th Street between Avenue J and Avenue K. S.E. corner of Avenue J at left.
1506 Avenue L
\[#1506 Avenue L, between East 15th Street and East 16th Street.] \#1506 Avenue L, between East 15th Street and East 16th Street. Brighton Beach BMT train in background. House has a fair sized garden to the right (not shown.)
1423 Avenue J
\[View of north side of Avenue J.] View of north side of Avenue J looking west. Corner of E. 15th Street at right. Key Food, 1413 Avenue J per tel. directory.
1501 Avenue J
\[Avenue J and East 15th Street.] Avenue J and East 15th Street looking northeast towards Brighton Beach BMT station (portion of platform at far right.)
West Flatbush Victory Garden
\[Elka and Abraham Israel] Image represented is one of a related set (GRDN 0201), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Elka Israel, chairman of the West Flatbush C. V. O. Victory Garden Committee, and her husband, Abraham, working in a community vegetable garden. 0201 shows them with cabbages and, 0202, with corn.
West Flatbush Victory Garden
\[Elka and Abraham Israel] Image represented is one of a related set (GRDN 0201), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Elka Israel, chairman of the West Flatbush C. V. O. Victory Garden Committee, and her husband, Abraham, working in a community vegetable garden. 0201 shows them with cabbages and, 0202, with corn.
981 East 15th Street
\[View of east side of East 15th Street.] View of east side of East 15th Street (looking North) between Avenue I and Avenue J.
Congregation Beth Torah
Temple Beth Torah Image represented is one of a related set (HERZ 0779), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two close-up images of entrance of brick, Syrian synagogue on Ocean Parkway between Avenue J and Avenue K with large sign over doorway: "Congregation Beth Torah;" 0772: man wearing coat and hat leaving building; 0779: several boys, some wearing prayer shawls, standing and sitting in front,and portion of house on far left.
Temple Beth-Torah
Temple Beth Torah Image represented is one of a related set (HERZ 0772), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two close-up images of entrance of brick, Syrian synagogue on Ocean Parkway between Avenue J and Avenue K with large sign over doorway: "Congregation Beth Torah;" 0772: man wearing coat and hat leaving building; 0779: several boys, some wearing prayer shawls, standing and sitting in front,and portion of house on far left.
Vitaphone Studios
Vitaphone Studios Electrical workers View of Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone acting in, or rehearsing, a scene from an unidentified movie at Vitaphone Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M. Image includes a grand piano in the left foregrouond.
Vitaphone Studios
Vitaphone Studios Image represented is one of a related set (WORK 1139), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two interior views of an unidentified musical number being performed at Vitaphone Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M.
Vitaphone Studios
Vitaphone Studios Interior view of a sound stage at Vitaphone \[motion picture] Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M.
Vitaphone Studios
Vitaphone Studios View of Eddie Craft and Herman Heller in the center of a sound stage at Vitaphone Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M. Image incldudes ten other, unidentified men.
Vitaphone Studios
Vitaphone Studios Image represented is one of a related set (WORK 1139), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two interior views of an unidentified musical number being performed at Vitaphone Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M.
Vitaphone Studios
\[Mischa Elman and Josef Bonime] View of Josef Bonime sitting at the piano and Mischa Elman, violinist, standing beside the piano, in the Vitaphone Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M.
Vitaphone Studios
Making motion pictures especially for women Caption: "Making motion pictures especially for women--To illustrate from week to week the creations of American fashion designers, a use of cinematograph that spreads widely the influence of the best current taste in dres ..." The end of the caption is missing. Image shows two women, presumably actresses, posing for a photographer and another man, presumably a director.
Vitaphone Studios
Vitaphone Studios Two images. 1137 is a posed view of eight executives at Vitaphone \[motion picture] Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M. Pictured, left to right, are Albert S. Howson, Stanley Watkins, H. M. Warner, Will N. Hays, W. C. Rich, Herman Heller, Henry Hadley, and S. L. Warner. 1141 is a studio portrait of Will N. Hays.
Vitaphone Studios
Crippled orchestra CaptIon: "Crippled orchestra--The symphony orchestra of the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, conducted by Eddie Brown. They play while many in like circumstances might weep."
Vitaphone Studios
Vitaphone Studios Interior view of a musical number being performed on a sound studio at Vitaphone \[motion picture] Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M. Image inclused an unidentified man, presumably the conductor and a woman, presumably a singer, with a large floral arrangement between them, in the foreground and a large, male orchestra in the background.
Vitaphone Studios
Giovanni Martinelli Portrait of Giovanni Martinelli, an opera singer, dressed as Pagliacci, at a Vitaphone sound studio located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M.
941 East 14th Street
\[#941 East 14th Street, between Avenue J and Avenue I.] \#941 East 14th Street, between Avenue J and Avenue I.
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