Title: Ingersoll Building

Photographer: Irving I. Herzberg

Date: 1958

Format: 1 photographic print: b & w, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.

Call #: HERZ 0248

Negative #: 582-11

Description: Close-up of inscription on facade of main building of Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza: "Here are enshrined the longing of great hearts and noble things that tower above the tide, the magic word that winged wonder starts, the garnered wisdom that has never died;" young woman leaning against wall in far left foreground and two women standing in far right foreground.