About This Item

  • TitleIndoor story hours
  • Call NumberCBPL_1134
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 1126, CBPL 1141, CBPL 1128, CBPL 1129, CBPL 1148, CBPL 1149, CBPL 1146, CBPL 1147, CBPL 1144, CBPL 1145, CBPL 1142, CBPL 1143, CBPL 1140, CBPL 1127, CBPL 1159, CBPL 1158, CBPL 1155, CBPL 1154, CBPL 1157, CBPL 1156, CBPL 1151, CBPL 1150, CBPL 1153, CBPL 1152, CBPL 1137, CBPL 1136, CBPL 1135, CBPL 1133, CBPL 1132, CBPL 1131, CBPL 1130, CBPL 1139, CBPL 1138), some of which may also be described in this new record; Thirty-four interior views, in several sizes, including many snapshots, of children attending story hours at Brooklyn Public Library. Locations include Central Library, Brower Park Branch, and Marcy Branch. Storytellers identified in images are: Dorothy Leland, Natalia Davis, and Spencer Shaw. The other people pictured are unidentified. Twenty-eight of the images are not dated.
  • Date1953, 1971, 1972
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description34 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraitssnapshots
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1133: 1953; 1139: Oct. 24, 1953; 1144: October 21, 1953; date typed: 1134: 1972; 1135: 12/71; 1137: 1972. Title from inscriptions on versos.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library ; Library employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library users -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Storytelling -- 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.