Title: Loyd's Puzzles

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/13/loyds-puzzles/

Description: Sam Loyd, mathematician and puzzler.

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Subject:   People

Title: Walter O'Malley and Robert Moses: The Loss of the Dodgers Reconsidered

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/23/walter-omalley-and-robert/

Description: An author talk with Robert Murphy, author of After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball.

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Subject:   Baseball,  Events,  Sports

Title: You may not quite recall my name, but certainly you ought to...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/04/16/you-may-not-quite-recall/

Description: A puzzle column in the Eagle and the story of Upton Sinclair's contribution to it.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  People

Title: The Brooklyn ???

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/05/20/brooklyn/

Description: Musing on name possibilities for the soon-to-be Brooklyn basketball team, the Nets.

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Subject:   Sports

Title: Brewed in Brooklyn: A History of Fermenting Barley in New York's Favorite Borough

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/06/28/brewed-brooklyn-history/

Description: A talk with David Naczycz and Cindy VandenBosch of Urban Oyster taking an entertaining, in-depth look at how beer has played a pivotal role in the history of Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Events,  Alcohol

Title: Bundle of Fun

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/08/04/bundle-fun/

Description: The life and writing of Henry Reed Stiles, including a volume on the practice of "bundling," or cuddling.

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Subject:   People

Title: Ephemera #1: Locks, Olives, and Hats

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/08/31/ephemera-1-locks-olives/

Description: Images of olives, locks, and hats from the Business & Industry section of the Ephemera Collection.

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Subject:   Ephemera Collection,  Industry,  Food

Title: Ephemera #2: All hail the fastener, that master of combination and order.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/16/ephemera-2-all-hail/

Description: Fasteners and attaching machines in the catalog of the Edwin B. Stimpson company.

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Subject:   Ephemera Collection,  Industry

Title: Vanquish your neighbors, win prizes: The Brooklyn Trivia Challenge

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/29/vanquish-your-neighbors/

Description: A trivia event at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Events

Title: Tonight! October 27th at 6:30pm BUSHWICK FARMS: Imagined Genealogies and Conceptual History.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/10/27/tonight-october-27th/

Description: Tara Cuthbert and Stuart Solzberg, creators of the Bushwick Farms project, will describe their ongoing art project.

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Subject:   Bushwick,  Genealogy,  Arts,  Events

Title: VETERANS DAY: BROOKLYN IN KOREA

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/10/veterans-day-brooklyn/

Description: A soldier in Korea requests and receives a Brooklyn street sign.

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Subject:   War

Title: Gimme Coffee!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/13/gimme-coffee/

Description: History of the coffee industry in Brooklyn, particularly the Dannemiller Coffee Company.

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Subject:   Food,  Industry

Title: Irving Herzberg and the Plane Crash of 1960

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/16/irving-herzberg-and-plane/

Description: A plane crash in Park Slope in 1960, documented by photographer Irving Herzberg.

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Subject:   Photography,  Herzberg, Irving,  Park Slope

Title: White Wings and Dream Stuff

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/28/white-wings-and-dream/

Description: The city's efforts to eradicate wild marijuana plants in Summer 1951.

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Subject:   Crime,  Nature

Title: Black News

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/14/black-news/

Description: Overview of the publication Black News, which was published from 1969 to 1984 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Subject:   Race,  Periodicals,  Bedford-stuyvesant,  Black history,  Civil Rights

Title: The Duke

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/01/duke/

Description: The death of Dodgers player Duke Snider prompts a history of his career.

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Subject:   Sports,  Baseball

Title: Una Furtiva Lagrima

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/16/una-furtiva-lagrima/

Description: Singer Enrico Caruso as documented by the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: A VERY QUIET FURY

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/01/very-quiet-fury/

Description: An April Fool's post about the made-up anarchist, vegetarian, and amateur photographer Heinrich Bollinger.

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Title: Out in the Cold: Part I

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/10/out-cold-part-i/

Description: Arctic explorer Frederick Cook and his fall from grace.

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Subject:   People

Title: Out in the Cold: Part II

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/16/out-cold-part-ii/

Description: More on arctic explorer Frederick Cook, including his still-standing Bushwick mansion.

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Subject:   Architecture,  People,  Bushwick

Title: Raising Brooklyn: An Illustrated Talk by Tamara Mose Brown, Wednesday May 25th, 7pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/24/raising-brooklyn/

Description: Tamara Mose Brown discusses her new book Raising Brooklyn which offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of women of Caribbean descent who provide childcare.

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Subject:   Events,  Children,  Women,  Immigration

Title: Anthony Fiala: Soldier, Explorer, Artist

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/13/anthony-fiala-soldier/

Description: A brief biography of Bay Ridge resident Anthony Fiala.

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Subject:   People

Title: StoryCorps at the Brooklyn Collection: July 25th - July 29th

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/06/storycorps-brooklyn/

Description: A partnership with StoryCorps to record Brooklyn stories during Brooklyn Week.

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Subject:   Events,  Projects,  Oral history

Title: Information for Busy People: The Brooklyn Eagle Library

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/08/information-busy-people/

Description: Selections from the Brooklyn Eagle Library, a collection of informational booklets for Brooklynites.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle

Title: HEAT WAVE!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/21/heat-wave/

Description: Vintage photos of Brooklynites in summer heat.

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Subject:   Weather

Title: Peter Cooper and his Glue

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/05/peter-cooper-and-his-glue/

Description: Peter Cooper's glue factory and its environmental impact on Newtown Creek.

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Subject:   Industry

Title: Teen Genius

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/01/teen-genius/

Description: Selections from The Prospect, a publication of Manual Training High School.

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Subject:   School History,  Periodicals

Title: Mr. Death

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/10/28/mr-death/

Description: The history of Union Cemetery, on the site of which Bushwick High School was built.

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Subject:   Cemeteries,  School History,  Bushwick

Title: Veteran's Day: Oral Histories from Brooklyn Soldiers

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/09/veterans-day-oral/

Description: Brooklyn contributions to the Veterans History project at the Library of Congress, including a recently departed Brooklyn Public Library safety officer who served in Vietnam.

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Subject:   War,  Projects,  Library staff

Title: Walk the Walk

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/07/walk-walk/

Description: Madame Ada Louise Anderson's feat of pedestrianism at the Mozart Garden in Brooklyn, as depicted in contemporary prints.

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Subject:   Prints Collection,  Sports

Title: Subway Art

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/01/04/subway-art/

Description: Philip Ashforth Coppola's book series Silver Connections: A Fresh Perspective on the New York Area Subway Systems.

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Subject:   Arts,  Transportation

Title: It's still full of cats in there.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/01/23/its-still-full-cats-there/

Description: A rescue of 40 abandoned cats from a Brooklyn storefront.

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Subject:   Animals

Title: Greenpoint Iwo Jima

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/24/greenpoint-iwo-jima/

Description: The Marine Corps Memorial of the Battle of Iwo Jima and its casting at the Bedi-Makky Art foundry in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Subject:   War,  Greenpoint,  Arts

Title: Return of a Native

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/14/return-native/

Description: Brooklyn artist Beverly Pepper.

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Subject:   People,  Arts

Title: Who are you?

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/06/who-are-you/

Description: A recently donated trove of family photographs.

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Subject:   Photography

Title: Brooklyn's Artful Dodgers

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/09/brooklyns-artful-dodgers/

Description: News coverage of pickpockets in midcentury Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Crime

Title: Semipro

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/14/semipro/

Description: The Bushwicks baseball team.

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Subject:   Baseball,  Sports

Title: A Freeman is Hard to Find

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/07/18/freeman-hard-find/

Description: Exploring the life and work of architect Frank Freeman.

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Subject:   Architecture,  People

Title: All Wet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/09/13/all-wet/

Description: The Mount Prospect Reservoir next to the site of what is now Central Library.

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Subject:   Library history,  Urban Development

Title: Stranger than Turkey

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/19/stranger-turkey/

Description: Vintage recipes from the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Food

Title: Last Minute Holiday GIF!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/12/24/last-minute-holiday-gif/

Description: An amusing Santa-themed edit to a vintage photograph for Christmas.

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Subject:   Holidays

Title: The Library Rap is Here

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/02/08/library-rap-here/

Description: A "library rap" from the Crown Heights branch on Umatic tape is digitized.

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Subject:   Library history

Title: Mapping Brooklyn's Baseball Heritage

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/03/15/mapping-brooklyns/

Description: A custom Google Map of Brooklyn's historic baseball sites.

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Subject:   Baseball,  Sports

Title: Let's Get Trivial!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/04/10/lets-get-trivial/

Description: A Brooklyn trivia event.

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Subject:   Events

Title: The Merchant Marine, Sheepshead Bay, and Richard Avedon

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/04/26/merchant-marine/

Description: Two magazines that covered life at the United States Maritime Service training station at Sheepshead Bay: The Helm and The Mast. The Helm was edited by photographer Richard Avedon.

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Subject:   War,  Photography,  Periodicals,  Sheepshead Bay

Title: Ridgewhat?

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/05/30/ridgewhat/

Description: Exploring Ridgewood, a neighborhood at the border between Brooklyn and Queens.

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Subject:   Ridgewood,  Neighborhood history

Title: Death in the Air

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/07/30/death-air/

Description: Dodgers player Leonard Koenecke and his untimely death.

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Subject:   Sports,  Baseball

Title: The March

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/08/28/march/

Description: Civil Rights materials in the Brooklyn Collection for the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

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Subject:   Race,  Civil Rights,  Black history

Title: Researching Your Family Tree: Monthly Genealogy Workshop

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/11/14/researching-your-family/

Description: A genealogy workshop hosted by the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Events,  Genealogy

Title: That green branch cut down

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/11/19/green-branch-cut-down/

Description: Coverage of JFK's assassination in Brooklyn's neighborhood newspapers.

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Subject:   Periodicals,  Politics

Title: Researching Reinhardt

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/05/15/researching-reinhardt/

Description: Design work and drawings by artist Ad Reinhardt in Brooklyn Dodgers publications donated by Al Todres.

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Subject:   Sports,  Baseball,  Arts