About This Item

  • Title[Loan desk at former Brownsville Children's Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_0405
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySnaking line of children holding books at Brownsville Children's Library (now Stone Avenue Branch), a Carnegie library on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville. Inscription on verso of copy 4: "The loan desk, any busy day. The children coming in at the door are returning books. The children in the foreground are waiting to have their books charged on their way out."
  • Date[1915?]
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.