About This Item

  • Title[Statue in former Brownsville Children's Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_0387
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of statue on pedestal (showing long-haired youth leaning against upright lute) that apparently once stood on ground floor next to staircase in Brownsville Children's Library (now Stone Avenue Branch), a Carnegie library on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville; inscription on verso, presumably taken from or illustrative of sculputure: "She's gone. Let her go. God bless her!".
  • Date[1915?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Brownsville Children's Library ; Brooklyn Public Library. Stone Avenue Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Children's libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Statues -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.