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  • TitleSpecial program for teenagers
  • Call NumberBPL_0204
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryNine African American teenagers (four sitting, five standing) and librarian, Milton Byam, standing in far right foreground. Caption: "Special program for teenagers of the Bedford Stuyvesant community held at the Brooklyn Public Library's Bedford Branch in 1949."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: photographer's stamp. Title and date from typed label on verso.
  • CreatorVerna Photographers [photographer]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Bedford Branch ; African American teenagers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.