About This Item

  • TitleBrownsville Children's Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_0421
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior view of 25th anniversary party at Brownsville Children's Branch of Brooklyn Public Library. Image shows unidentified girl blowing out candles on cake as Mr. Sullivan, holding cup, saucer, and napkin, Judge Garvin, and Mrs. DeGogorza, branch librarian, look on. Image also includes two floral bouquets on table in foreground. This branch, a Carnegie library, later renamed Stone Avenue Branch, opened in 1914.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteStamped on verso: "Please credit Roy Pinney, photographer." Title and date from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorPinney, Roy
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Stone Avenue Branch ; Anniversaries ; Cake -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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.