About This Item

  • Title[BPL story hour]
  • Call NumberCBPL_1181
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1173, CBPL 1172, CBPL 1171, CBPL 1167, CBPL 1177, CBPL 1176, CBPL 1175, CBPL 1174, CBPL 1179, CBPL 1178, CBPL 1168, CBPL 1166, CBPL 1169, CBPL 1170, CBPL 1180), some of which may also be described in this new record; Fifteen exterior views, in several different sizes, including several snapshots, of story hours at Brooklyn Public Library. 1166 shows group of children lined up outside library. Storyteller in 1173 and 1174 is Miss Mabel Berry; the other storytellers are unidentified. The location of 1175 is Prospect Park. The other locations are unknown. Eleven of the images are not dated.
  • Date1913, 1953, 1969, 1971
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description15 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraitssnapshots
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1169: 1913; 1173: July, 1953; date typed: 1175: July, 1971; 1176: 1969. Stamped on verso: 1177, 1178, 1181: "Verna Photographers;" 1179: "Photo by The Hindles. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Storytelling -- 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.