About This Item

  • TitleSaratoga groundbreaking
  • Call NumberBPL_1176
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryGroundbreaking ceremony for garden at Saratoga Branch, a Carnegie library at 8 Thomas S. Boyland Street, showing Borough President Howard Golden, Library Director Larry Brandwein, and three African American women looking on as two boys prepare to dig with shovels; crowd of children behind boys at left; library in background, with projecting entrance at far left.
  • Date[198-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : b. & w. : 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBrandwein, Larry ; Golden, Howard ; Brooklyn Public Library. Saratoga Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ground breaking ceremonies -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (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.