About This Item


  • Title[Central Library parties]
  • Call NumberCBPL_0730
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0727, CBPL 0726, CBPL 0731, CBPL 0729, CBPL 0728), some of which may also be described in this new record; SIx interior views of employees at various social events, including a dance, a Halloween party, two banquets, and two birthday or anniversary parties, at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. 0731 shows an elderly woman, probably Mrs. Amoretta Fraser, cutting a large cake. 0727 and 0730 show Milton J. Ferguson, library director. 0730 also includes Ms. C. W. Hunt, left, and Mrs deGogorza, right. The rest of the people pictured are unidentified. Four of the images are not dated.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso of 0730: Sept. 21/39. Stamped on verso: "Roy Pinney photograph;". Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorPinney, Roy
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Banquets -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Cake -- New York (State) -- New York ; Dancing -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Dinners and dining -- New York (State) -- New York ; Halloween -- 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.