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  • TitleFamily faces book famine
  • Call NumberBPL_0787
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Family faces book famine--Charles D. Cohen, 70 Florence Ave, reads notice of Gerritsen Beach library closing to daughters, Martha, center, Jean, and Mary, in the basket, and his wife, Mrs. Kathleen Cohen, and warns them to rush through their latest and last batch of book withdrawals before the July 1 deadline."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: caption stamped: Jun[e] 27, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Gerritsen Beach Branch ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gerritsen Beach (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.