Urban Archive has a new pictorial map of “Amusements, Movies, and the Great Outdoors: Summertime Fun with H.P. Lovecraft” in New York City. Including a picture of the Montague Street branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

I went looking for more of this library branch, and found an evocative picture of the entrance. The exterior book and magazine stand, seen outside, was probably not selling the library’s discards. Since a memoir of a Brooklyn boyhood states that the library rigorously removed all dust-jackets and other attractive elements — placing its books into a severe uniform binding.

From the 1925 telegraphic diary, 2nd February…

[With] CME & GK to Taormina [restaurant] and Montague St. — meet SL in subway — Idol