About This Item
- Title[BPL employees visiting hospital patients]
- Call NumberCBPL_0865
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0868, CBPL 0869, CBPL 0862, CBPL 0863, CBPL 0861, CBPL 0866, CBPL 0867, CBPL 0864, CBPL 0871, CBPL 0870), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eleven views, in four different sizes, including two snapshots, of Brooklyn Public Library employees, including Miss Caruso and Merriam Gould, the only people identified, taking books to patients, including one African American man, at various Brooklyn hospitals. All images are interiors except for 0861, which appears to be the roof of Coney Island Hospital. 0867 is not dated.
- Date1939, 1946, 1951, 1953
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description11 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraitssnapshots
- Note0861: 3 x 5 in.; 0862: 5 x 3 in.; 0871: 10 x 8 in. Dates inscribed on verso: 0861, 0862: May, 1939; 0863, 0864, 0866, 0871: 1951; 0868, 0870: May, 1948; date stamped: 0865: Oct. 18, 1953; 0869: Jul[y] 7, 1946. Stamped on verso: 0863- 0866: "Verna Photographers;" 0865: "Brooklyn Eagle." Title supplied by cataloger.
- SubjectBrooklyn Public Library ; African American men -- New York (State) -- New York ; Books -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- 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.