About This Item

  • TitleBrooklyn Public Library, East Branch
  • Call NumberCARN_0005
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CARN 0003), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of the Arlington Branch (then known as East Branch), a newly opened Carnegie library on Arlington Avenue in East New York; 0003 shows staff and patrons around central circulation/reference desk, with staircase at left sweeping up to balconies; 0005 shows reading room, with hanging ceiling lamps and female librarian seated at desk in middle of room; adults reading at tables throughout room.
  • Date[1907?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto; photographer's stamp on recto.
  • CreatorPearsall, Frank
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Arlington Branch ; 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.)East New York (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.