About This Item

  • Title[Story hour in Tompkins Park]
  • Call NumberCBPL_1234
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1231, CBPL 1232, CBPL 1233, CBPL 1235), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five views of female librarian and children in Tompkins Park in story hour activity sponsored by Tompkins Park Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, not visible in photographs and no longer extant; 1231 shows librarian holding books and speaking to children sitting on ground before her; 1232 shows two African American boys with straw hats playing on iron railing in park; 1233 shows one of the boys with straw hat sitting alone on grass; 1234 shows librarian bending to pick up book before group of children sitting on ground, and one boy (back to camera) sitting alone in foreground; 1235 shows overhead view of librarian and one other woman escorting children through walkway of park.
  • Date[195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Photographer's stamp on verso.
  • CreatorJaffe, Bernard M., 1939-
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Storytelling -- New York (State) -- New York ; Librarians -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parks -- New York (State) -- New York ; African American boys -- 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.