About This Item
- TitleMontague Branch
- Call NumberBPL_1018
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1019, BPL 1017), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views, in two different sizes, of a reading room at the Montague Branch of Brooklyn Public Library located at 197 Montague Street. 1019 includes three women, one or two of whom appear to be employees, and two men. Built in 1867, the building became a branch library in 1903 and served as the system's main library. It closed in 1962 when the Brooklyn Heights Branch opened. The images are not dated.
- Date[191-?]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 6 x 9 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- Note1019: 7 x 8 in. Title from inscriptions on versos.
- SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Montague Branch ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.