SummaryPosed close-up portrait. Caption: "First of nearly 800,000 copies of the 1959 Brooklyn telephone directory ... presented to the Brooklyn Public Library on Thursday, December 18. New directory has as its cover picture a sketch of the famous, fifty-foot entrance to the library's Ingersoll Building at Grand Army Plaza. Presentation, made on steps ... involves, left to right, secretary of Library Trustees Harold J. Baily; New York Telephone Company vice president Walter A. Giles; chairman of the Library Trustees Henry J. Davenport; Brooklyn chief librarian Francis R. St. John. Mr. Davenport ... also received mounted copy of original sketch by Norman Rines and a plaque commemorating occasion."
NotePhotographer's name (Larry Barenfeld) stamped on verso. There is an identical copy, with call number CBPL 1077, in the folder: Brooklyn Public Library: Directors: St. John, Francis R.: Receiving books. Title from typed caption on verso.
SubjectDavenport, Henry Joralemon, 1880-1960 ; St. John, Francis R ; Brooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Plaques -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Telephone -- Directories -- New York (State) -- New York
Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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