About This Item
- Title[Employees at Central Library]
- Call NumberCBPL_0696
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0699, CBPL 0698, CBPL 0693, CBPL 0695, CBPL 0694, CBPL 0697, CBPL 0701, CBPL 0700), some of which may also be described in this new record; Nine interior views of employees engaged in various jobs and activities at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. 0695 and 0699 include Francis St. John, library director, and 0699 also includes Mrs. Lela De Otte Surrey, superintendent of cataloging. Caption (0700): "Pre-professional librarians: Columbia group: Front row (left to right): Mrs. Katherine N. Dill, Esther Helfand, Frances B. Woods, Mary M. Murray, Thelma Weinreb, Mrs. Helen G. Ostrow, Carol P. Nielsen, Jean Goldman, and Nina Laura Smith. Back row (left to right): Jane M. Kavanagh, Dallas R. Shawkey, Robert P. Stewart, Charles R. Shaw, Melvin Sanders, Sidney L. Jackson, Rodney Armstrong, Herbert Weiner, and Jacqueline Danelle." The other people pictured in the images are unidentified. Seven of the images are not dated.
- Date1951, 1959, 1960
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description9 photographic prints : black & white
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- NoteDate inscribed on verso: 0695: '59; 0697: 12-28-60. Stamped on verso: 0693: Roy Pinney photograph;" 0694, 0700: "Verna Photographers;" 0696, 0701: "Photo by The Hindles; 0697: "Publicity Photographers;" 0699: "Brooklyn Eagle, Oct. 1, 1951;". Title supplied by cataloger.
- SubjectSt. John, Francis R ; Brooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Library administrators -- 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.