About This Item


  • TitleCrown Heights
  • Call NumberBPL_0642
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0640, BPL 0641), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three interior views of unidentified people at Crown Heights Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, located at 560 New York Avenue, on its opening day, April 21, 1958. 0641 is a close-up view of a young girl handing a book to a young woman library employee.
  • Date1958
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso of 0640: date inscribed: April 21, 1958; photographer's stamp. Title from inscription on verso of 0640.
  • CreatorChristensen & Boesen
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Crown Heights Branch ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.