About This Item

  • TitleBedford Youth Library
  • Call NumberBPL_0197
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFifteen African Americans, mostly young adults, standing and sitting in Bedford Branch, Franklin Avenue and Hancock Street. Caption: "Bedford Youth Library opened October 1949 as a section of the Brooklyn Public Library branch in the Bedford Stuyvesant area."
  • Date[1949?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: photographer's stamp. Title and date from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorVerna Photographers [photographer]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Bedford Branch ; African Americans -- 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.