About This Item

  • Title[Men reading in Saratoga Branch Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_1174
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryNine or ten men reading newspapers at wooden tables in high-ceilinged reading room of Saratoga Branch, a Carnegie library at 8 Thomas S. Boyland Street, probably soon after opening in 1908; bookshelves along walls below windows; six lamps hanging from ceiling.
  • Date[1908?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white : 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Saratoga Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library users -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.