About This Item
- Title[Adolescent patrons at Grand Army Plaza Library]
- Call NumberCBPL_0748
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0750, CBPL 0751, CBPL 0752, CBPL 0753, CBPL 0754, CBPL 0755, CBPL 0749, CBPL 0747, CBPL 0746, CBPL 0745, CBPL 0757, CBPL 0758, CBPL 0759, CBPL 0756, CBPL 0760), some of which may also be described in this new record; Views of adolescent patrons at Central Library (unless other location noted) of Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza; 0745 (7 x 9 in.) shows group of adolescents posing on steps of brick building at unknown location; occasion identified on verso as "Readers Digest tour, Teen Age Council"; 0746 (8 x 10 in.) shows three adolescents circa 1962 walking into room with sign reading "Entrance to Young Teens Division"; 0747 (8 x 10 in.) shows multi-racial group of adolescent and younger children clustered around a table, with book shelves and card catalog in background; 0748 (8 x 10 in.) shows three adolescent boys and one girl sitting with female teacher or librarian in Trustees Room; 0749 (8 x 10 in.) shows roomful of seated adolescents taking notes in lecture or conference room; occasion identified on verso as "Career Day"; 0750 (8 x 10 in.) shows seated man speaking to five adolescent boys, with displays on bulletin board in background; 0751 (8 x 10 in.) shows seated librarian or teacher (identified on verso as "Miss Slocum") with three adolescent girls and one boy; 0752 (10 x 8 in.) shows three adolescent boys and two girls examining large globe; 0753 (8 x 10 in.) shows two adolescent boys and one girl (identified on verso as "Teenagers from National Council of Christians & Jews") seated at table with books, with male teacher or librarian standing behind them; 0754 (8 x 10) shows adolescent boy and girl circa 2000 at Saratoga Branch Library examining paperback book from "TerRIFic's Club" book rack; 0755 (8 x 10 in.) shows two adolescent boys sharing dictionary and taking notes at wooden table; 0756 (8 x 10 in.) shows group of adolescents (identified on verso as "Teen Council") posing for group photo around table in Trustees Room; 0757 (8 x 10 in.) shows four white adolescent girls seated on folding chairs speaking to African American man in suit; occasion identified on verso as "Career Day"; 0758 (10 x 8 in.) shows two adolescent girls reading on window bench in children's room, with boy browsing shelves at left; 0759 (10 x 8 in.) shows adolescent girl seated at table with books and adolescent boy browsing shelves behind her in Washington Irving Branch; 0760 (8 x 10 in.) shows adolescents with teacher or supervisor standing in foyer watching boy at table demonstrating printing or other art techniques at table.
- Date1953-[ca. 2000]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description16 photographic prints : black & white
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso of 0748: date stamped: Dec. 17, 1953; on verso of 0749: date inscribed: Dec. 6, 1955; on verso of 0750: date stamped: Mar. 26, 1956; on verso of 0756: date stamped: Dec. 17, 1953; on verso of 0757: date inscribed: Dec. 6, 1955. Photographer's stamp ("Publicity Photographers") on verso of 0746; photographer's stamp ("L. Barenfeld") on verso of 0292; photographer's stamp ("Christensen & Boesen") on verso of 0751 and 0753.
- SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library users -- New York (State) -- New York ; Teenagers -- New York (State) -- New York
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn, 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.