About This Item
- Title[Story hour at playgrounds]
- Call NumberCBPL_1217
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1218, CBPL 1212, CBPL 1213, CBPL 1216, CBPL 1215), some of which may also be described in this new record; Librarians from Brooklyn Public Library telling stories and reading books to children in playgrounds and other unidentified locations in Brooklyn; 1212 (8 x 10 in.)shows librarian identified on verso as Harriet Quimby holding book up while reading to a group of seated children in small yard or lot; 1213 (9 x 6 in.) shows female librarian holding book in background, seen against foreground of children sitting and standing before her in playground; 1215 (8 x 10 in.) shows female librarian gesturing to children seated in rows against wall of brick building, perhaps branch library; 1218 (10 x 8 in.) shows same librarian holding book for children to see in same location; 1217 (8 x 10 in.) shows female librarian in playground holding up and turning pages of book for group of children (backs to camera) in foreground; 1218 (8 x 10 in.) shows group of seated and standing children in playground listening to unseen storyteller at right.
- Date[195-?]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Photographer's stamp on versos.
- CreatorHindles (Photographers)
- SubjectQuimby, Harriet B ; Brooklyn Public Library ; Storytelling -- New York (State) -- New York ; Librarians -- New York (State) -- New York ; Playgrounds -- New York (State) -- New York
- PlaceBrooklyn (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.