About This Item

  • TitleRetired staff tea, 1965
  • Call NumberCBPL_1038
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFour elderly women sitting or standing at table with teacups, perhaps in Trustees Room of Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza; other staff members, including librarian Dallas R. Shawkey, standing with teacups in background. Typed and inscribed label on verso: "Edith Partridge, (left), Vera Jensen (next to left), Ethel Shrewsbury (next to right), Kate Boccia (right)."
  • Date1965
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle and date from typed label on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Librarians -- New York (State) -- New York ; Retired women -- 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.