About This Item


  • Call NumberCBPL_0794
  • Title[Children's Room at Grand Army Plaza Library]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0796, CBPL 0797, CBPL 0791, CBPL 0793, CBPL 0800, CBPL 0801), some of which may also be described in this new record; Seven views of children in Children's Room at Grand Army Plaza Library; 0791 (8 x 10 in.) shows group photo of 43 students posing in corner of room by librarian's office; 0793 (8 x 10 in.) shows small children seated around book bench in foreground, with librarians at reference desk in left background; 0794 (10 x 8 in.) shows ten children standing at reference desk under balcony assisted by two female librarians; 0796 (8 x 10 in.) shows busy scene of adults and children browsing shelves and standing before reference desk in what may or may not be Central Library at Grand Army Plaza; 0797 (8 x 10 in.) shows sunlight falling on boy in overcoat reading book on bench; 0800 (8 x 10 in.) shows boy and girl sitting at table taking notes from book; 0801 (8 x 10 in.) shows boy and girl reading next to window bench amid books displayed face out and poster for "Book Week."
  • Date[ca. 1950]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Photographer's stamp ("Roy Pinney") on verso of 0791; photographer's stamp ("The Hindles") on verso of 0793 and 0797: photographer's stamp ("Samuel H. Gottscho") on verso of 0794; photographer's stamp ("Clara Feldmann") on verso of 0800.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library users -- New York (State) -- New York ; Children's libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Librarians -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Children: II