About This Item

  • TitleModest beginnings
  • Call NumberBPL_0182
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Modest beginnings--the multi-million dollar Brooklyn public school system of today came to life in this one-room schoolhouse founded 290 years ago in Bedford Village. It officially became P. S. 3 in 1843 when all the village schools were united in one system;" Signs on building: above door: "Storage" and "Carpet renovator;" left of doorway: "Entrance on Bedford Ave.;" cornfield in foreground. Presumably the location is Franklin Avenue and Hancock Street where the Bedford Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, completed in 1905, was built.
  • Date1913
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; heavily retouched. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 19, 1954; dates inscribed: 1897, Nov. 9/13. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHistoric buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.