About This Item

  • TitleMacon reopening
  • Call NumberBPL_0920
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior view of a group of school children, mostly African American, and one African American man, sitting or standing in reading room at a reopening of the Macon Branch of Brooklyn Public Library located at 361 Lewis Avenue. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1907.
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 12-5-49. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorVerna Photographers
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Macon Branch ; African American children -- New York (State) -- New York ; African American men -- 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
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.