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  • TitleIf you are 60 or more
  • Call NumberBPL_0750
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFour eldery people reading books at card table, while four others standing behind them look on. Caption: "If You Are 60 or More: Guests at the opening of the Senior Citizen Room in the Flatbush Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, Flatbush Ave. and Linden Boulevard, enjoy the hospitality of the first such room for those 60 or more, where papers and books may be read and games of cards or checkers played. Seated, left to right, are Mrs. G. Silverman, Mrs. L. Hyman, Isidor Sommer and Mrs. Bellinger. Standing, Harriet Righter, trustee of the room; Madge E. Hincher, librarian of the branch, Monsignor Francis X. Gibbon, also a trustee, and Miss Bobbo."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 9, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Flatbush Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library users -- New York (State) -- New York ; Older people -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.