About This Item

  • Call NumberBPL_0526
  • TitleCarroll Park vandalism
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0525, BPL 0524, BPL 0527), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of wreckage after fire in Carroll Park Branch (now Carroll Gardens Branch), a Carnegie library at 396 Clinton Street; 0524 (8 x 10 in.) shows floor scattered with charred books and broken pieces of timber, with bottom of empty books shelves at left; 0525 (10 x 8 in.) shows charred book stacks (some shelves with ruined books) and scattered debris on floor; 0526 (8 x 10 in.) shows burnt section of wall, with two damaged wooden chairs in left foreground and radiator at right; 0527 (8 x 10 in.) shows close-up of debris on floor, including burnt books, timber, and remnant of American flag.
  • Date1960
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle and date ("July 1960") from inscription on versos. Photographer's stamp on versos. Grease pencil cropping marks on 0525.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Carroll Gardens Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fires -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Carroll Gardens (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: Carroll Park: General