Mott Avenue Railroad Crossing

Collection: This image is from the Edgar E. Rutter Photographs and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Edgar E. Rutter Photographs

Date: October 7, 1930; 1930-10-07 Material: gelatin silver print Dimension: 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: Edgar E. Rutter Identifier: aql:14197 eer-000047 eer-000047.tif

Description: A truck drives along the Grove Street spur of the Long Island Rail Road in this southwesterly view over the Mott Street crossing. Partly seen at far left is a two-story brick commercial building housing Arnold's Restaurant, the brokerage offices of Morris & Smith, and offices of Vandewater and Lapp, City Surveyors. Billboards at left advertise Chesterfield cigarettes and the 1930 motion pictures "Leathernecking" and "Border Legion". Beyond the billboards can be seen a Mullen & Buckley Manufacturing Company building, and in the far center distance, on the spur, is the Burns Brothers Coal Company. A view of the same location, but looking due south along Mott Street, can be seen in record eer-000003

Title : Mott Avenue Railroad Crossing

Collection : aql:14185

Creator : Edgar E. Rutter

Date : October 7, 1930; 1930-10-07

Summary/Description : A truck drives along the Grove Street spur of the Long Island Rail Road in this southwesterly view over the Mott Street crossing. Partly seen at far left is a two-story brick commercial building housing Arnold's Restaurant, the brokerage offices of Morris & Smith, and offices of Vandewater and Lapp, City Surveyors. Billboards at left advertise Chesterfield cigarettes and the 1930 motion pictures "Leathernecking" and "Border Legion". Beyond the billboards can be seen a Mullen & Buckley Manufacturing Company building, and in the far center distance, on the spur, is the Burns Brothers Coal Company. A view of the same location, but looking due south along Mott Street, can be seen in record eer-000003

Subject : Long Island Rail Road; Billboards; Railroad crossings; Automobiles

Relation : This image is from the Edgar E. Rutter Photographs and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Edgar E. Rutter Photographs

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Mott Avenue at Grove Street (now Beach 22nd Street), Far Rockaway, NY Far Rockaway (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : black and white print; digital image

Format : gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:14197 eer-000047 eer-000047.tif