About This Item

  • TitleBrownsville Children's Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_0422
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior view of 25th anniversary party at Brownsville Children's Branch of Brooklyn Public Library. Image shows Mrs. DeGogorza, branch librarian, cutting cake as Milton J. Ferguson, Chief Librarian of Brooklyn Public Library, and Miss [Clara Whitehill] Hunt, Superintendent of Children's Work, look on. This branch, a Carnegie library later renamed Stone Avenue Branch, opened in 1914.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteStamped on verso: "Please credit Roy Pinney, photographer." Title and date from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorPinney, Roy
  • SubjectFerguson, Milton J. (Milton James), 1879-1954 ; Hunt, Clara Whitehill, 1871-1958 ; Brooklyn Public Library. Stone Avenue Branch ; Anniversaries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cake -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- 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.