About This Item

  • TitleAlcove reading room, Brooklyn Public Library : photo
  • Call NumberPOST_0030
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Postcard collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySide view of fiction alcove on the first floor of Central Branch of Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza with a wall of windows that overlooked the rose garden. Man reading at table in foreground; library patrons browsing at shelves and seated at tables in background; card catalog visible through entrance portal in left background. Caption reads: Alcove reading room ... photo by Gottscho.
  • Date[194-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 postcard : black & white ; 4 x 6 in.
  • Genrepostcards
  • NoteTitle from caption on recto. On verso: date stamped: 21 Ap. 47.
  • CreatorGottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971.
  • PublisherArtvue Post Card Co., New York
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library ; Libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Postcard collection
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.