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  • Title[Flatbush Branch Library staff posing on grounds of library]
  • Call NumberBPL_0746
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0749, BPL 0748, BPL 0745, BPL 0747), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five views of female staff members of Flatbush Branch Library at 22 Linden Boulevard posing outdoors on grounds of library; 0745 (3 x 5 in.) shows eleven staff members (identified on verso as Elsie D. Purcell, Marguerite E. Lennon, Ruth Eastwood, Marguerite M. Williams, Ethel E. Eaton, Ethel G. Bailey, Florence A. Winner, Karen Ovestad, Grace L. Donagby, Christina Davis, and Florence I. Hacket) standing in one row, with wall of library behind them; 0746 (3 x 4 in.) shows nine staff members (three standing, six seated on lawn), with portion of library behind them and bushes at right; 0747 (3 x 4 in.) shows nine staff members (identified on verso as Grace L. Donaghy, Ruth Eastwood, Elsie Purcell, Ethel Eaton, Marguerite Lennon, Florence Hacket, Karen Ovestad, Marguerite William, and Ethel Bailey) grouped around small fountain, with walkway and portion of library in background; 0748 (4 x 3 in.) shows single figure (identified on verso as "Miss Lennon") standing at end of walkway against library amid flowering bushes and shrubs; 0749 (4 x 6 in.) shows eleven staff members (three seated on lawn, eight standing behind them), with iron palings and portion of street behind them.
  • Date1929-1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsgroup portraitsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On versos: date inscribed or typed: 1929 (0747); Summer 1929 (0746); September 1931 (0745) ; July 1932 (0748); Spring 1936 (0749).
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Flatbush Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Librarians -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.