About This Item


  • TitleEastern Parkway Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_0697
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0700, BPL 0699, BPL 0698, BPL 0696, BPL 0695), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five interior views of people sitting or standing in the Eastern Parkway Branch of Brooklyn Public Library located at 1044 Eastern Parkway. 0695 and 0700 show Miss Lillie Krasner speaking to audience sitting in an auditorium with William Chait, branch librarian, standing in background. 0697 and 0699 show library patrons sitting and reading in reading room. 0696 shows group of people, mostly children, crowded in front of what appears to be a circulation desk with two library employees, back to camera, in foreground. The images are not dated.
  • Date[194-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0695 and 0700 are identical. Inscribed on verso of 0695: "Gorodess photo"; stamped on verso of 0697, 0699: "Photo by W. . Hassler." Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Eastern Parkway Branch ; Auditoriums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.