About This Item

  • TitleBookmobile
  • Call NumberBPL_0005
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0002, BPL 0003, BPL 0001, BPL 0006, BPL 0007, BPL 0004, BPL 0008, BPL 0009, BPL 0011, BPL 0010), some of which may also be described in this new record; Eleven shots of Brooklyn Public Library's bookmobile moving and parked in a variety of Brooklyn locations including one moving in front of Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at Grand Army Plaza.
  • Date[195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description11 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note000: 4 x 3 in; 0002-0005: 3 x 5 in.; 0006: 4 x 6 in.; 0007-0009: 5 x 7 in.; 0010, 0010: 8 x 10 in. Date from inscription on verso of 0011: "early 1950's." On verso: 0009: "Library-on-Wheels" on typed label; 0011: "Motor truck News" stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library ; Bookmobiles -- 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.