About This Item

  • Call NumberGOVT_0122
  • TitleReading machine
  • SummaryMan seen from behind using microfilm reader in former Hall of Records (since destroyed) on Livingston Street and Court Square. Caption: "Reading Machine: Searcher at Brooklyn's Hall of Records demonstrates manner in which examiners and extractors must look up at microfilm viewer plate and then down at table to make notes. Photographer's flashbulb lights up the scene, but actually the room is dimly lighted so that light behind microfilm will be effective."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 23, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMicrofilm readers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public records -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Government: Judiciary: Hall of Records