About This Item

  • TitlePoetry and Drama Ensemble
  • Call NumberCBPL_0519
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0518, CBPL 0516, CBPL 0517, CBPL 0514, CBPL 0515), some of which may also be described in this new record; Six views related to the Poetry and Drama Ensemble at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. 0514 show group of people, all back to camera, in auditorium listening to four speakers. 0515 shows four women, three of whom appear to be acting a scene from a play; the fourth appears to be directing the scene. 0516 shows Kenneth Whitlock shaking hands with another man in front of an exhibit titled, Civil War and Lincoln. 0517 and 0518 show man and two young women acting a scene. 0518 also shows Kenneth Whitlock, left, and Mrs. Eleanor Smith, library employee, right. 0519 (caption): "Helen Marie Taylor, standing, directs members of the workshop in 'Love Poetry Through the Ages' at the Ingersoll Building. ... Participants seated, left to right, are Roy Upshaw, Laura Stuart, Jerry Trichter, Helen Dayton, Bill Steele, Kathleen E. Jones, and Kenneth Whitlock." Most of the people pictured are unidentified. One of the images in not dated.
  • Date1960, 1961
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0514: cropped: 7 x 9 in.; 0516: 10 x 8 in. Date inscribed or stamped on verso: 0514: Oct. 21, '60; 0516: 3-15-61; 0517, 0518: spring, 1960; 0519: 4-13-61. Stamped on verso: 0514, 0517, 0518: "Publicity Photographers;" 0515: "Photograph by Carol C. Roberts;" 0516, 0519: "L. St. Clair Dummett Photography." Title from typed caption on verso of 0519. Copy 2-6 of 0519.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Acting -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York ; Auditoriums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library exhibits -- 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.