About This Item


  • Call NumberCARN_0171
  • Title[Patrons at Bedford Branch Library]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CARN 0170, CARN 0172), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views of patrons using newly opened Carnegie library on Franklin Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant; 0170 shows children lined up at checkout desk, with female librarians in white shirts attending them; 0171 shows adults using reading room (women at tables in foreground, men at tables in background); 0172 shows crowded reading room with every seat occupied by reading child.
  • Date[1905?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Bedford Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.