About This Item

  • Title[Boys club meeting in former Brownsville Children's Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_0397
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryNine adolescent boys, most holding books and sitting or leaning on chairs, in book discussion at Brownsville Children's Library (now Stone Avenue Branch), a Carnegie library on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville; vases with flowers on window sills in background. Caption on verso of copy 3: "In 1953, the Brownsville Boys Club met regularly at their branch library to read and discuss books...."
  • Date[1953]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Brownsville Children's Library ; Brooklyn Public Library. Stone Avenue Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Children's libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Boys -- Societies and clubs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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.