About This Item
- Title[New Lots Branch Library circa 1950]
- Call NumberBPL_1045
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1041, BPL 1043, BPL 1042, BPL 1044), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five views of New Lots Branch Library in storefront location on New Lots Avenue previous to opening of current building in 1957; 1041 shows women, girls, and one boy browsing book shelves along two walls; 1042 shows line of children holding library cards entering library, with sign on window reading "New Lots Community Library, sponsored by Womens Club of ENY, YM, & YWHA"; 1043 shows room crowded with children, teenagers, and a few adults sitting and standing at tables and browsing through or signing out books; 1044 shows boys in foreground (two at left looking into camera) in crowded room with other browsers and patrons; 1045 shows children and adults crowded in room with card catalog in right foreground.
- Date[ca. 1950]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Inscription on versos of 1043-1045: Amcco Commercial Photographers. 1041-1042 retouched.
- SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. New Lots Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library users -- New York (State) -- New York
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New Lots (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.