About This Item


  • Call NumberBPL_0959
  • TitleMidwood
  • SummarySix interior, close-up views, in two different sizes, of people, mostly children, at the Midwood Branch of Brooklyn Public Library located at 975 East 16th Street. 0951 shows a boy, standing, holding book and elderly woman, sitting and reading; 0953 shows a boy and girl sitting, reading in reading room; 0954 shows group of children listening to storyteller; 0955 and 0958 show several children standing at circulation desk; 0959 shows a girl using the card catalog. The building opened in January, 1955.
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0951: 7 x 5 in. On versos: date inscribed: 1952; 0951: "Photo by Syd Greenberg." Title from inscriptions on versos.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Midwood Branch ; Books -- New York (State) -- New York ; Card catalogs ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York ; Storytelling -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Midwood (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Brooklyn Public Library: Branches: Midwood: People