About This Item

  • TitleBedford Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_0190
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0183, BPL 0181, BPL 0179, BPL 0187, BPL 0186, BPL 0185, BPL 0184, BPL 0188, BPL 0180), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eight views of exterior of Bedford Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, Franklin Avenue and Hancock Street, built by funds donated by Andrew Carnegie and completed in 1905; 0181, 0188 show building under construction.
  • Date1904-1909, [196-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description10 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printssnapshots
  • Note0179: snapshot: 4 x 5 in.; 0180: 8 x 5 in.; 0183, 0184: 6 x 8 in.; 0186: 7 x 10 in. 0180: cropped. On verso: 0186: "Hine Photo Company;" 0187: "Oldest branch of the B. P. L.;". On verso: date inscribed: 0181, 0188: April, 1904; 0183, 0190: 1905; 0184: Feb. 22, 1909. Title from inscription on verso of 0181.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Bedford Branch ; Library buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.