About This Item

  • Title[Greenpoint Branch Library shortly before opening]
  • Call NumberBPL_0809
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of original Carnegie building (torn down in 1970) of Greenpoint Branch Library at 107 Norman Avenue, shortly before opening; stickers still on windows, and front door not yet completed; man with hands on hips standing on top of library steps; wheel of carriage in far right foreground.
  • Date1904
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white : 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 17, 1904; Eagle stamp. Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Greenpoint Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (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.