About This Item

  • Title[Scene at reference desk in former Brownsville Children's Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_0395
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySeated female librarian turning pages of a book with adolescent girl in Brownsville Children's Library (now Stone Avenue Branch), a Carnegie library on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville; adolescent boy with open book awaiting assistance in front of reference desk; one boy reading at dictionary stand and another reading at desk in background.
  • Date[ca. 1953]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger; photographer's stamp on verso of copy 2.
  • CreatorNichols, Ruth Alexander
  • 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 ; Librarians -- 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.