About This Item

  • TitleProspect Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_1124
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1128, BPL 1129, BPL 1122, BPL 1123, BPL 1121, BPL 1126, BPL 1127, BPL 1125, BPL 1117, BPL 1313, BPL 1314, BPL 1119, BPL 1118), some of which may also be described in this new record; Fourteen interior views, in seven different sizes, of library patrons, mostly school children, sitting and reading, or standing, in reading room at the Prospect Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, a Carnegie library, located at 431 Sixth Avenue. The branch was renamed the Park Slope Branch in 1975. The images are not dated.
  • Date[191-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description14 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso of 1125.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Park Slope Branch ; Brooklyn Public Library. Prospect Branch ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (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.