About This Item

  • TitleMontague Branch reading room
  • Call NumberBPL_1011
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1005, BPL 1013, BPL 1006, BPL 1016, BPL 1015, BPL 1012), some of which may also be described in this new record; Seven interior views, in five different sizes, including three snapshots, of library patrons sitting or standing in a reading room at the Montague Branch of Brooklyn Public Library located at 197 Montague Street. Built in 1867, the building became a branch library in 1903 and served as the system's main library. It closed in 1962 when the Brooklyn Heights Branch opened. Four of the images are not dated.
  • Date1955, 1958, 1959
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraitssnapshots
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso of 1015.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Montague Branch ; 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.)Brooklyn Heights (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.