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  • Title[Librarian with children in Owl's Head Park]
  • Call NumberCBPL_1219
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1221, CBPL 1220), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three snaphots of librarian standing before group of children seated on ground in Owl's Head Park in Bay Ridge; 1219 ( 4 x 5 in.) shows librarian with back to tree showing book to children; 1220 (4 x 5 in.) shows more distant view of group, with two Brooklyn Public Library beach umbrellas providing shade and man seated on pony cart at left; 1221 (5 x 4 in.) shows librarian under beach umbrella in profile with upraised book. Typed label on verso of 1220: "Story hour in full swing in Owl's Head Park as Miss Lois Weeden, Children's Librarian, reaches all ages. Emptied pony cart waits nearby."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printssnapshots
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date typed on label: 7-2-53.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library ; Storytelling -- New York (State) -- New York ; Librarians -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBay Ridge (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.