About This Item

  • Title[Adolescent boy reading to others in former Brownsville Children's Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_0398
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryStanding boy reading speech or debating points, apparently at meeting of Brownsville Boys Club in Brownsville Children's Library (now Stone Avenue Branch), a Carnegie library on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville; meeting apparently supervised by woman seated at table with back to camera in left foreground; all other boys seated and listening to speaker.
  • Date[ca. 1953]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger; photographer's stamp on verso.
  • CreatorNichols, Ruth Alexander
  • 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 ; Boys -- Societies and clubs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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.