About This Item


  • Call NumberCBPL_0708
  • Title[Central Library employees]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0710, CBPL 0709, CBPL 0703, CBPL 0702, CBPL 0707, CBPL 0706, CBPL 0705, CBPL 0704), some of which may also be described in this new record; Nine interior views, in three different sizes, of employees engaged in various tasks and activities at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. 0702 shows card catalog. All of the images except 0707, which is a close-up view of Francis St. John, library director, show books and/or book stacks. The rest of the people pictured are unidentified. Seven of the images are not dated.
  • Date1952, 1962
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description9 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteInscribed on verso: 0705: "Arthur Ian Miltz;" 0708: "Irving Kavalsky." Date stamped on verso: 0706: Feb. 9, '62; 0707: Sept. 11, 1952. Stamped on verso: 0702: "Roy Pinney photograph;" 0703: "Acme Newspictures;" 0704: "Photograph by Irving Fitzig;" 0706: "Publicity Photographers;" 0707: Photograph by Jules Geller;" 0710: "Photographed by the Verna Photographers." Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Books -- New York (State) -- New York ; Card catalogs ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Brooklyn Public Library: Central: Staff: General: IV