About This Item

  • TitleTompkins Park story hour
  • Call NumberBPL_1208
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of unidentified African American woman telling story to a group of children at an outdoor story hour of the Tompkins Park Branch of Brooklyn Public Library located in Tompkins Park. The branch closed in 1969. The image is not dated.
  • Date[196-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: photographer's stamp. Title from inscriptions on verso.
  • CreatorHindles (Photographers)
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Tompkins Park Branch ; African American women -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Storytelling -- 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.