About This Item


  • Title[Fireplace at former Brownsville Children's Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_0385
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0205), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three children reading on bench at right of fireplace in Brownsville Children's Library (now Stone Avenue Branch), a Carnegie library on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville; two logs on hearthstone at left and others burning in fireplace; caption on recto of 0205 reads, "Brooklyn Public Library Children's Branch"; 0385, 7 x 9 in.; images otherwise identical.
  • Date[1915?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger; photographer's stamp on verso.
  • CreatorBrown Brothers (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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 ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fireplaces -- 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.