About This Item


  • Title[Brooklyn Public Library patrons]
  • Call NumberCBPL_0498
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0488, CBPL 0489, CBPL 1327, CBPL 0586, CBPL 0501, CBPL 0500, CBPL 0502, CBPL 0485, CBPL 0486, CBPL 0487, CBPL 0497, CBPL 0496, CBPL 0495, CBPL 0494, CBPL 0493, CBPL 0492, CBPL 0491, CBPL 0490, CBPL 0499), some of which may also be described in this new record; Twenty views of unidentified patrons, in several different sizes, including two snapshots, standing or sitting and reading at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. 0493 shows man carying stack of books in front of card catalog. Fourteen of the images are not dated.
  • Date1953, 1962, 1970, 1974
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description20 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printssnapshots
  • NoteDates on versos: typed: 0487: 1974; 0488: October 24, 1953; 0490: June, 1970; 0496: 1962; inscribed: 0491, 0491: Oct. 21, 1953; 0499: 1953. Photographer's name on verso: typed: 0488: Bernard M. Berns; inscribed: 0491: Arthur Singer; 0495: Ruth Strauss; stamped: 0500: Gottscho-Schleisner; 0502: Samuel Gottscho. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Card catalogs ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- 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.