About This Item

  • Title[Three people on steps of Red Hook Branch Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_1155
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo men and one woman consulting documents on steps before arched entrance of Carnegie library on Visitation Place (since demolished). Caption on verso of undigitized image: "Plans for serving 8,000 residents of the new Federal Housing Project in Red Hook are discussed by former Federal Judge Edwin L. Garvin (above center), Dr. Milton James Ferguson, chief librarian, and Miss Faith L. Allen, librarian of the Red Hook Branch."
  • Date[1939]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Photographer's stamp on verso; date (May 11/39) from verso of undigitized image.
  • CreatorPinney, Roy
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Red Hook Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Librarians -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceRed Hook (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.