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  • Title[BPL trustees]
  • Call NumberCBPL_1251
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1256, CBPL 1257, CBPL 1254, CBPL 1255, CBPL 1252, CBPL 1253, CBPL 1250, CBPL 1249, CBPL 1248, CBPL 1258, CBPL 1259, CBPL 1261, CBPL 1260), some of which may also be described in this new record; Fourteen interior views, in three different sizes, of Brooklyn Public Library trustees including John D. Butt, Henry J. Davenport, Tigelia DiGiovanna, Howard J. Dirkes, Irving Engel, John C. Frantz, Judge Edwin L. Garvin, Denis M. Hurley, Minneola Ingersoll, Raymond V. Ingersoll, Rabbi Benjamin Z. Kreitman, Henry Q. Middendorf, Charles J. Mylod, Joseph Resnick, Harriet T. Righter, Jay Sam Unger, H. Elliot Wales, Dr. Alfred Grant Walton, and Morris G. Zirin. Other people pictured include library directors Francis St. John, library director, 1948-1964, John Humphrey, library director, 1965, and Abe Stark, Brooklyn borough president. The locations are, presumably, the Central Library. Four of the images are not dated.
  • Date1937, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1973
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description14 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note1248-1251, 1253, 1254: 5 x 7 in.; 1252: 7 x 5 in. Date typed on verso: 1248, 1252: 1971; 1253, 1254: 1973; 1256: 11/23/64; inscribed: 1255: Nov., '65; 1257: July, 1960; 1258: Feb. 21/'39; 1259: 1937. Photographer's name stamped on verso: 1256: Jay Sharp; 1257: Publicity Photographers; 1258, 1259: Roy Pinney; 1260: L. Barenfeld. Title supplied by cataloger. Copy 2, 3, 4 of 1255.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library trustees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.