About This Item

  • TitleCity Park Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_0537
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0538, BPL 0539), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three interior views of City Park Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, a Carnegie library that opened in 1908. It is located at 93 St. Edwards Street. It was renamed Walt Whitman Branch in 1943. 0537 includes several library patrons and employees; 0539 is a reading room.
  • Date[191-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso of 0539.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Walt Whitman Branch ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.