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  • TitleDr. Milton James Ferguson
  • Call NumberCBPL_0639
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0637, CBPL 0636, CBPL 0635, CBPL 0634, CBPL 0633, CBPL 0632, CBPL 0638), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eight interior views of Milton J. Ferguson, director of Brooklyn Public Library from 1930 to 1947, pictured in his office at the Central Library with twenty-one different, mostly unidentified, people, some of whom are presumably library employees. 0637 shows Ferguson with Senator Sherbell, Assemblyman Kaplan, and Miss Silverstein. Six of the images are not dated.
  • Date1946, 1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description8 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso: 0634: March 20/46; 0637: 1/28/47. Stamped on verso: 0632, 0635, 0638: "Roy Pinney photograph;" 0639: "Samuel H. Gottscho." Title from inscription on verso of 0639.
  • SubjectFerguson, Milton J. (Milton James), 1879-1954 ; Brooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- 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.