About This Item

  • TitleMacon Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_0918
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInscription: "Miss Thelma Gipson, community coordinator, conducts 'Operation Second Chance' class [with seven African American adults, five men and two women, pictured] at the Macon Branch [of Brooklyn Public Library located at 361 Lewis Avenue. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1907.
  • Date1964
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1964. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Macon Branch ; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.