About This Item

  • Title[Interior of former Brownsville Children's Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_0392
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0393, BPL 0390), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of reading rooms in Brownsville Children's Library (now Stone Avenue Branch), a Carnegie library on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville; 0390 (4 x 6 in.) and 0392 (8 x 10 in.) indentical except for size and cropping; 0393 (8 x 10 in.) shows same reading rooms from reverse angle; 0390 and 0392 distinguished by corner of reference desk with vase in left foreground; 0393 distinguished by circulation counter with wooden screen at left.
  • Date[1915?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger; photographer's stamp on verso.
  • CreatorBrown Brothers (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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 ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.