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  • TitleMacon Reading Center
  • Call NumberBPL_0917
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0919), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two interior views. Caption (0917): "Three youngsters with perfect attendance were presented with scrolls at the concluding session of a five-program series on Negro History presented at the Macon Reading Center [in the Macon Branch] of the Brooklyn Public Library by the graduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sororiety. With the youngsters are (left to right) Miss Thelma Gipson, one of the library's community coordinators; Dr. Mavis Thompson, active in the Negro History program, and Miss Juanita Bobbett, president of the sororiety." 0919 shows Miss Gipson speaking to a group of unidentified African American children and adults.
  • Date1965
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso of 0917: date inscribed: 2/6/65. Title from typed caption on verso of 0917.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Macon Branch ; Awards -- New York (State) -- New York ; African American children -- New York (State) -- New York ; African American women -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.