About This Item
- Title[Francis St. John at Central Library]
- Call NumberCBPL_1067
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1061, CBPL 1068, CBPL 1065, CBPL 1066), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five interior views, in two sizes, of Francis St. John, director of Brooklyn Public Library, with several other people. In 1061, St. John and two other men are looking at a Walt Whitman exhibit. In 1065, Margaret Freeman, deputy director, St. John, and another man are holding and looking at an Oregon Trail Memorial Association certificate. In 1066, St. John and another man are working with microfilm at a microfilm machine. In 1067, St. John and Henry Davenport, library trustee, are looking at a large blueprint. In 1068, St. John is handing a young girl a library card as a young Asian woman, presumably a library employee, looks on. The other people pictured are unidentified. Four of the images are not dated.
- Date1960
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- Note1066: 10 x 8 in. Date inscribed on verso of 1065: 1960. Stamped on verso: 1061, 1065: "Publicity Photographers;" 1066: "Larry Barenfeld;" 1067: "Verna Photographers.:. Title supplied by cataloger.
- SubjectDavenport, Henry Joralemon, 1880-1960 ; Freeman, Margaret ; St. John, Francis R ; Brooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library exhibits -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library trustees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Microfilm readers ; Microfilms ; 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.