About This Item

  • Title[Mercantile Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_1024
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1025), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two architectural renderings of the Mercantile Library, which opened in 1867 at 197 Montague Street. It became the Montague Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in 1903. The images are not dated.
  • Date[186-?], 1866
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteOn recto: inscription in upper right corner: "Pen drawing by Geo. F. Bobb after building was completed;" in lower right corner: "P. B. Wight, arch., 1866." Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Montague Branch ; Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.