About This Item

  • Call NumberCBPL_0381
  • TitleBrooklyn telephone directory
  • SummaryPosed close-up portrait. Caption: "First of nearly 800,000 copies of the 1959 Brooklyn telephone directory ... presented to the Brooklyn Public Library on Thursday, December 18. New directory has as its cover picture a sketch of the famous, fifty-foot entrance to the library's Ingersoll Building at Grand Army Plaza. Presentation, made on steps ... involves, left to right, secretary of Library Trustees Harold J. Baily; New York Telephone Company vice president Walter A. Giles; chairman of the Library Trustees Henry J. Davenport; Brooklyn chief librarian Francis R. St. John. Mr. Davenport ... also received mounted copy of original sketch by Norman Rines and a plaque commemorating occasion."
  • Date[1958]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NotePhotographer's name (Larry Barenfeld) stamped on verso. There is an identical copy, with call number CBPL 1077, in the folder: Brooklyn Public Library: Directors: St. John, Francis R.: Receiving books. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBarenfeld, Larry [photographer]
  • SubjectDavenport, Henry Joralemon, 1880-1960 ; St. John, Francis R ; Brooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Plaques -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Telephone -- Directories -- 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: Exterior: N. Y. Telephone directory