About This Item

  • Title[Reading room of Brownsville Branch Library]
  • Call NumberCARN_0013
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryLight-filled reading room in newly opened Carnegie library on Glenmore Avenue in Brownsville, showing wooden chairs and tables, book-lined walls, and painting of ancient sailing ship (possibly Henry Hudson's Half Moon) over fireplace.
  • Date[1908?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 14 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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.