About This Item

  • Title[Macon Branch Library]
  • Call NumberCARN_0090
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CARN 0089, CARN 0088), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views of newly opened Carnegie library on Lewis Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant; 0088 shows exterior view, with telephone poll and two bare trees on sidewalk in foreground; 0089 shows children's room, featuring alcove with mural over fireplace and benches built into walls; 0090 shows central circlation area, with turnstiles and curved railings before four-sided circulation desk, and two decks of bookshelves behind desk.
  • Date[1907?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 10 x 13 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger; photographer's stamp on versos.
  • CreatorWalter, F. A.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Macon Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Children's rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.