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  • TitleCentral exhibits
  • Call NumberCBPL_0230
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0228, CBPL 0229, CBPL 0224, CBPL 0226, CBPL 0227, CBPL 0221, CBPL 0222, CBPL 0223, CBPL 0231), some of which may also be described in this new record; Ten interior views, in two sizes, of exhibits at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. 0221 shows Rev. Cornelius Greenway of All Souls Universalist Church and Francis St. John, library director, looking at pictorial biography of President-elect Eisenhower; 0222 shows St. John, Evelyn Kirkland, head of reference services, and Amikam Nashon, 4, of 1233 Avenue U, looking at Puerto Rican handicraft; 0226 shows three unidentified school children looking at exhibit; 0227 shows Henry Davenport, library trustee, looking at exhibit with two other unidentified men; 0228 shows young woman and young man loking at exhibit of hand papermaking; 0229 shows Mrs. W. Clifford Bowden, chairman of the flower arrangements show at the library, with three first prize Kings County Association Garden Clubs flower arrangements; 0230 shows Consumers Union exhibit; 0231 shows unidentified school girl looking at art exhibit. Seven of the images are not dated.
  • Date[192-?], 1947, 1952, 1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description10 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0223, 0231: 10 x 8 in. Stamped on verso: 0221: "Brooklyn Eagle, Jan. 14, 1953; Lambert;" 0222: Brooklyn Eagle, Jan. 28, 1953; Kruh;" 0223, 0227: Christensen & Boesen;" 0229: "Brooklyn Eagle, Apr. 27, 1952;" 0231: :Jos. R. Lewis." Inscribed on verso: 0228: 1947. Title from inscriptions on versos of 0228, 0230, 0231.
  • SubjectDavenport, Henry Joralemon, 1880-1960 ; St. John, Francis R ; Brooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Bouquets -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Flower arrangement -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library exhibits -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library trustees -- 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.