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  • Title[Prospect Branch and Park Slope Branch]
  • Call NumberBPL_1138
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 1139, BPL 1140, BPL 1141, BPL 1142, BPL 1143, BPL 1144, BPL 1145, BPL 1146), some of which may also be described in this new record; Nine interior views of the people in the Prospect Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, a Carnegie library, renamed the Park Slope Branch in 1975, located at 431 Sixth Avenue. 1138 shows group of children attending a Winnie the Pooh birthday party in 1996; 1139 shows group of children sitting and reading, or standing,in reading room; 1140 shows group of children watching a marionette show; 1142 shows librarian Josephine Smith sitting at desk in left background; 1144 shows Mr. Shaw, an African American, telling story to group of children; 1145 and 1146, taken in 1977, show Anthony Caracciolo, 51st Assembly District Leader; Elinore Flynn, President of the Friends and Associates of the Park Slope Library; Thomas J. Cuite, Vice Chairman of the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden, and Kenneth F. Duchac, library director. 1146 also includes Thelma Black, branch librarian, and John Noonan, member of the Friends and Associates. 1139 is not dated.
  • Date[192-?], 1936, 1938, 1940, 1950, 1977, 1996
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description9 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note1138: 4 x 6 in.; 1139: 5 x 11 in. Inscribed on verso of 1141 and 1143: "Photographer: Schwartz;" 1144: "Warman, N. Y. Herald Tribune." Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectBlack, Thelma ; Caracciolo, Anthony ; Cuite, Thomas J ; Duchac, Kenneth F ; Flynn, Elinore ; Golden, Howard ; Noonan, John ; Smith, Josephine ; Brooklyn Public Library. Park Slope Branch ; Brooklyn Public Library. Prospect Branch ; Birthday parties -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Carnegie libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading rooms -- New York (State) -- New York ; Storytelling -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (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.