About This Item
- Title[Mercantile Library furniture]
- Call NumberBPL_1030
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1027, BPL 1029), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three architectural renderings of furniture to be used in the Mercantile Library which opened in 1867 at 197 Montague Street. 1027 shows a table and two chairs, 1029 shows a secretary's desk, and 1030 shows two reading room tables. The building became the Montague Branch of Brooklyn Public Library in 1903. The images are not dated.
- Date[186-?]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
- NoteOn recto of 1029: "P. B. Wight, architect" printed in lower left corner. Title supplied by cataloger.
- SubjectMercantile Library Association of the City of New-York ; Brooklyn Public Library. Montague Branch ; Chairs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Desks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tables -- New York (State) -- New York
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.