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  • Title[Brooklyn Public Library employees]
  • Call NumberCBPL_1023
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1025, CBPL 1024, CBPL 1021, CBPL 1022, CBPL 1018, CBPL 1019), some of which may also be described in this new record; Seven views of employees of Brooklyn Public Library engaged in various tasks and activities. 1018 shows staff member about to lead a library tour; 1019 shows woman playing a game with seven African American children outside library; 1020 shows program outside Central Library including several men wearing military uniforms; 1023 shows Ms. Corboy, Children's Room librarian, with four children; 1024 shows woman working with registration files at Central Library; 1025 shows librarian Dorothy Harris. The other people pictured are unidentified. The locations of 1019 and 1025 are unknown. Five of the images are not dated.
  • Date1953, 1960
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso of 1018: date inscribed 12-28-'60; 1024: date typed: 4-20-53. Stamped on verso: 1018: "Publicity Photographers;" 1019: "Photo by Bill Schropp;" 1022: "Larry Barenfeld;" 1024: "Photo by The Hindles." Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library users -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public librarians -- 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.