About This Item

  • TitleBrooklyn Public Library
  • Call NumberCBPL_0115
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "[Mem]orial to Borough President Ingersoll is the Central Building of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. The $5,000,000 building was [completed in] 1939, after a long series of depays which followed the ground-breaking in 1912. The Brooklyn Eagle assisted in the long campaign to finish the library. Space between dotted lines indicates the wasted portion of the Raymond V. Ingersoll main branch, ... where the second floor is empty and unused because work on it has never been completed." Image includes tall, fluted column on large pedestal, and section of Flatbush Avenue with several parked and moving automobiles and one truck.
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 9 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn caption on verso: "Photo by Eagle staff photographer." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Automobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Grand Army Plaza (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.