Koster and Bial’s Music Hall.

Music-halls--New York (State)

Thirty-fourth Street (New York, N.Y.)

Commemorative plaque with the inscription: Here the motion picture began on the night of April 23, 1896 on this site in Koster & Bial’s Music Hall Thomas A. Edison with the Vitascope first projected a moving picture.

Digital 34th Street

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Not applicable.

2010

Jeanette O'Keefe

Copyright Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center. All rights reserved. Use prohibited without written permission.

Digital images

34th Street and Broadway

34th Street west of Broadway - 6th Ave, Koster & Bials, 1902.

Music-halls--New York (State)--New York.

Thirty-fourth Street (New York, N.Y.)

Horse-drawn vehicles--New York (State)--New York.

Koster and Bial’s Music Hall on 34th Street and Broadway. Construction work is being done next to the building and pieces of lumber are visible near the sidewalk. The image also features pedestrians and horses and carriages. On the left an advertisement posted on a brick building says “Grand Rapids Furniture Exhibit.”

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Unknown

1902

Keystone View Company

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Prints

34th Street and Broadway