About This Item

  • Call NumberCBPL_0895
  • TitleSmith's Pharmacy
  • SummaryView of several schoolgirls, all reading books, at the McKinley Park Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, originally a deposit station at Smith's Pharmacy located at 6923 Fort Hamilton Parkway. Image includes the sign, "Brooklyn Public Library," above several bookshelves and a woman, presumably a library employee, in background.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: November 13, 1939; photographer's stamp.. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorPinney, Roy
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. McKinley Park Branch ; Drugstores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Dyker Heights (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: Outreach: General