The Archives at Queens Library

Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 246-55 87th Avenue, Bellerose, Queens, December 10, 1944. Photo by Frederick J. Weber, from the Frederick J. Weber Collection.

Socony Service Station and Pullman Diner, Corner Jamaica and Hempstead Avenues, Queens Village, Queens, March 17, 1933. Photo by Frederick J. Weber, from the Fredreick J. Weber Collection.

The Ottilie Orphan Home Band, Ottilie Orphan Home, 144-25 87th Avenue, Jamaica, Queens, circa 1934. Photo by Frederick J. Weber, from the Frederick J. Weber Collection.

Bulova Watch Company, Electronics Division, Woodside, Queens, March 8, 1973. Photos by Harry Kalmus, from the Harry Kalmus Collection.

"Scene of accident between Jamaica Central Railway Company trolley and automobile, probably Jamaica Avenue near Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens, circa 1910" Photo by Frederick J. Weber

Dear Friends and Patrons of the Archives at Queens Library: We are moving! The Archives will be closed to the public from June 27 through August 1, when we will re-open in our new location on the lower level of the Central Library. We hope you will visit us there!

Story hour at the Douglaston-Little Neck Branch of the Queens Library, July 8, 1937. This photograph, taken by a Queens Library photographer, was generously donated to us by the Rice Lake (Wisconsin) Public Library.

From the Sister Sonia Duthoit Photograph Collection. Born in Belgium, Sister Sonia Duthoit lived in New York City from 1964 to 1968. While in New York she studied with the photographers Bruce Davidson and Lisette Model at the New School. Sister Duthoit currently lives at a Benedictine Monastery in the south of France. We are very grateful to her for donating her photographs to the Archives.

Trylon and Perisphere, 1939 New York World's Fair, Flushing, Queens. From the J. William Sawyer Collection. These views are some of the earliest examples of vernacular color photography. The Kodak Company had introduced Kodachrome slide film only a year before the Fair opened.

Full view of the Neptune Water Meter Company (later Five Pointz) 200 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, January 18, 1928