Real estate library

Real estate library
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Title: Real estate library
Description:

Man in suit reaching for volume in stacks of former Hall of Records (since destroyed) on Livingston Street and Court Square. Caption: "Real Estate Library: Piled up like stacks of wheat cakes are volumes in the record room of the Register's office in the Hall of Records, containing real estate conveyance and mortgage data. John W. Crowley, Assistant Deputy Register in charge, is reaching for one of the heavy volumes."

Date: 1946
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: May 12, 1946; "Eagle staff photo."
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Government
Subject: Municipal buildings
Lost architecture
Archivists
Public records
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: GOVT 0125