About This Item


  • TitleWashington Irving Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_1234
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1232, BPL 1233, BPL 1304), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four interior views, in three different sizes, including two snapshots, of Washington Irving Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, a Carnegie library, located at 360 Irving Avenue. 1232 shows five small children sitting in from of decorated Christmas tree with fireplace at left; 1233 and 1304 show reading room; 1234 shows young man and woman sitting and reading and another young man standing at bookshelves in teenage, "Guys and Gals," area. 1233 and 1234 are not dated.
  • Date1926, 1937, [195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraitssnapshots
  • NoteDates inscribed on verso: 1232: 1937; 1304: 1926. Title from typed caption on verso of 1304.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Washington Irving Branch ; Books -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Christmas trees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fireplaces -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (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.