About This Item
- Title[Outdoor story hour in Tompkins Park]
- Call NumberCBPL_1193
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1190, CBPL 1192, CBPL 1194, CBPL 1197, CBPL 1196), some of which may also be described in this new record; Sequence of photographs showing children leaving Tompkins Park Branch (no longer extent) of Brooklyn Public Library for outdoor reading; 1190 shows children and adults in summer clothing walking down steps of library; 1192 shows children and women (some sitting on ground, some standing) and one policeman at perimeter of reading group near temporary fence, presumably listening to reading; 1193 shows group of laughing and smiling children in park, with Brooklyn Public Library beach umbrella in background and man in white shirt (back to camera) in right foreground; 1194 shows two adolescent girls on their knees near a tree giving thumbs up sign; 1196 shows boy sitting on ground reading book; 1197 shows woman sitting on ground displaying open book for chidren sitting before her.
- Date[195-?]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Photographer's stamp on versos.
- CreatorJaffe, Bernard M., 1939-
- SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Tompkins Park Branch ; Storytelling -- New York (State) -- New York ; Librarians -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parks -- New York (State) -- New York
- PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)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.