About This Item

  • TitleWilliamsburgh Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_1263
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1254, BPL 1255, BPL 1256, BPL 1257, BPL 1258, BPL 1259, BPL 1261, BPL 1260, BPL 1262, BPL 1264), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eleven interior views, in three different sizes, of people, mostly patrons, and mostly reading,in reading room at the Williamsburgh Branch of Brooklyn Public Library located at 240 Division Avenue. Several of the people pictured appear to be library employees. Eight of the images are not dated.
  • Date1901, 1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description11 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDates inscribed on versos: 1259: circa 1914; 1260: 11/16/14; 1264: 1901. Title from inscriptions on versos of 1261-1264.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Williamsburgh Branch ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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.