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  • Title[Art exhibits at Grand Army Plaza Library]
  • Call NumberCBPL_0296
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0299, CBPL 0298, CBPL 0295, CBPL 0294, CBPL 0297, CBPL 0291, CBPL 0290, CBPL 0293, CBPL 0292), some of which may also be described in this new record; Views of art exhibits at Central Library; 0290 (8 x 10 in.) shows man and woman holding watercolors and landscape drawings; 0291 (10 x 8 in.) shows young woman (identified on verso as "Edith Boehm with one of her pastel drawings") standing next to framed still-life; 0292 (8 x 10 in.) shows eight paintings hanging in entrance foyer (inscription on verso reads "Norwegian Art & Craft Club"); 0293 (8 x 10 in.) shows four paintings on left side of entrance foyer; 0294 (8 x 10 in.) shows four or five people looking at three of the paintings seen in 0293 (identified on verso as "Louis Bouché Exhibit"); 0295 (8 x 10 in.) shows close-up of the same three paintings; 0296 (10 x 8 in.) shows woman looking at painting of two dogs; standing boxer dog at her left; 0297 (8 x 10 in.) shows four paintings on right side of entrance foyer; 0298 (8 x 10 in.) shows bust of Abraham Lincoln at right and series of photographic portraits at left; 0299 (8 x 10 in.) shows display of photographs and paintings of African Americans, all unframed or pinned against wall and board.
  • Date1944-1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description10 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso of 0294: date inscribed: Dec. 12, 1943-Jan. 11, 1944; on verso of 0292: date inscribed: March 1947. Photographer's stamp ("Roy Pinney, Photographer") on verso of 0290; photographer's stamp ("Photo by Michael Hoiland") on verso of 0292; photographer's inscription ("Photo by Abraham Rubinson") on verso of 0298.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library exhibits -- 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.