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  • Title[Art exhibits at Central Library]
  • Call NumberCBPL_0159
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0152, CBPL 0153, CBPL 0156, CBPL 0157, CBPL 0154, CBPL 0155, CBPL 0158), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eight interior views of exhibits of drawings and paintings at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. 0152 and 0153 are child's drawings of George Washington Carver, Joe Walcott, and Joe Louis. 0155 shows three unidentified Asians, two men and one woman, looking at watercolor exhibit. 0156 shows three women and one man, thee of whom are identified as Petershams, Doris Patee, and Irene Smith. The fourth person is unidentified. 0158 shows one woman and two men (one African American) looking at paintings exhibit. Typed caption on 0159: "Paintings by Spanish children (top one showing town bombed by planes) lent to Brooklyn Public Library ... by American Friends Service Committee. {Pictured are] Dr. Milton Ferguson, chief librarian, and representative of the Committee." Six of the images are not dated.
  • Date1947, 1949, [195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description8 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0152: 10 x 8 in. Date inscribed on verso: 0156: Feb. 13/'47; 0152, 0153: Feb. 13-27, 1949. Inscribed on verso: 0152, 0153: "Credit this photograph to Ronald Woodward;" stamped on verso: 0154: "Roy Pinney Photograph;" 0155, 0158: "Christensen & Boesen;". Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectFerguson, Milton J. (Milton James), 1879-1954 ; Brooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library exhibits -- New York (State) -- New York ; Painting -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.