About This Item


  • Title[Miscellaneous views of children at Brooklyn Public Library]
  • Call NumberBPL_1345
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0810, BPL 1343, BPL 1344, CBPL 0804, CBPL 0812, CBPL 0807), some of which may also be described in this new record; Views of children at Central Library and other branches of Brooklyn Public Library; BPL 1343 (3 x 4 in.) shows African American girl smiling into camera and looking up from book; BPL 1344 (5 x 7 in.) shows girl turning pages of book; globe next to her on table and filing cabinets behind her; BPL 1345 (8 x 10 in.) shows man in checkered shirt and glasses reading book with girl, who turns pages; CBPL 0804 (10 x 8 in.) shows library director Francis R. St. John and man in bow tie looking on as two girls in German or Austrian costume present check or certificate to boy and girl; CBPL 0807 (7 x 6 in.) shows boy in unknown location looking up and to the right, with partial view of girl holding books behind him; CBPL 0810 (7 x 5 in.) shows girl holding book in one arm and browsing bookshelves with other arm; 0812 (8 x 10 in.) shows sitting boy looking down and touching books on slanted table.
  • Date[ca. 1950-ca. 1990]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name stamped on verso of BPL 1343: Al Mauro; photographer's name stamped on verso of CBPL 0804: Verna Photographers; name inscribed on verso of CBPL 0812: Stanley Lichtman.
  • SubjectSt. John, Francis R ; Brooklyn Public Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library users -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reading -- New York (State) -- New York ; Children's 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.