About This Item

  • TitleCentral Library
  • Call NumberCBPL_0418
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0428, CBPL 0429, CBPL 0432, CBPL 0419, CBPL 0418, CBPL 0422, CBPL 0421, CBPL 0426, CBPL 0427, CBPL 0424, CBPL 0425, CBPL 0431, CBPL 0430), some of which may also be described in this new record; Fourteen interior views, in three different sizes, including one snapshot, of Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library prior to its opening on February 1, 1941. 0418 shows a portion of the office, including fireplace and large contemporary landscape painting, of the library director, Milton Ferguson. The images are not dated.
  • Date[1941?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description14 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printssnapshots
  • NoteStamped on verso of 0421-0432: "Wurts Brothers Photographers." Title from inscriptions on versos of 0421-0432.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Fireplaces -- New York (State) -- New York ; Painting -- 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.