About This Item

  • TitleSouth Branch
  • Call NumberBPL_1199
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior view of schoolboys sitting and reading in reading room at the South Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, a Carnegie library, located at 5108 Fourth Avenue. Image also includes library employee sitting at reference desk and woman sitting beside her. The building was determined to be obsolete in 1970 and subsequently demolished. The new building, at the same location, named the Sunset Park Branch, opened in 1972. The image is not dated.
  • Date[191-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. South Branch ; Brooklyn Public Library. Sunset Park Branch ; Carnegie libraries -- 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.)Sunset Park (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.