About This Item

  • TitleProspect Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_1120
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1130, BPL 1301), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three interior views of school children sitting and reading in reading room with fireplace at the Prospect Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, a Carnegie library, located at 431 Sixth Avenue. 1120 and 1301 are close-up views of three girls and two boys sitting on chairs. 1130 is a similar view with three boys sitting on the floor. Copy 2 of 1130 has typed caption: "Many of the libraries built with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie had fireplaces which were lit during holiday times." The branch was renamed the Park Slope Branch in 1975. The images are not dated.
  • Date[190-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note1120 and 1301 are identical. Title from inscription on verso of 1129.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Park Slope Branch ; Brooklyn Public Library. Prospect Branch ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fireplaces -- 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.)Park Slope (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.