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Description: Hunting down the identity of a statue found at Central Library, the author identifies it as Henry R. Stiles and explores his life.
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Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2019 June 11, 2019
Description: An examination of retouched photographs in the Brooklyn Eagle photo morgue and photo retouching techniques.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Photography
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2017, 2017 May 15
Description: Photographer, writer, theater director and filmmaker Bill Powers's photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge and his boyhood in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Bridges, Brooklyn Bridge, Photography
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2018 May 3, 2018
Description: A look at the history of Brooklyn's armory buildings and their varied uses.
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Subject: Architecture, Neighborhood history, War, Sports
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2020 February 12, 2020
Description: The history of Vanderveer Park.
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Subject: Flatbush, Neighborhood history, Maps
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2020, 2020 November 28
Description: Our photo of the week features the Fulton Ferry House that once stood where Old Fulton Street met the water’s edge in Brooklyn Heights, one in a series of ferry buildings on that site.
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Subject: Architecture, Transportation, Photo of the Week
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 February 26, 2021
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week features a busy corner in Brownsville, 1501 Pitkin Avenue, where the stately Loew’s Pitkin Theater took up the entirety of the block between Legion Street and Saratoga Avenue.
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Subject: Theaters, Photo of the Week, Architecture, Brownsville
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021, 2021 April 26
Description: The Kings County Elevated Railway and its main line, popularly known as the Fulton Street “L”, rattled along Fulton Street for more than half a century. Trains originally operated by steam, and later converted to electric between the late 1890s and early 1900s.
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Subject: Transportation, Photo of the Week, Urban Development
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 June 8, 2021
Description: In the late 19th century housing conditions for the poor in Brooklyn were crowded, unsafe, poorly ventilated, and lacked amenities. Today's Photo of the Week shows one of the first efforts in our borough to create affordable and pleasant housing for those who struggled to pay the rent.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Housing, Urban Development
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 August 4, 2021
Description: The first set of photographs originating from the former Brooklyn Historical Society to be featured in the Center for Brooklyn History digital portal is the Ramus family collection.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, People, Photography
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 September 17, 2021
Description: From 2008-2017 the Veterans Creative Arts Program, hosted at the Veterans Affairs (VA) New York Harbor Hospital, Brooklyn Campus, offered classes for members of the US military to speak creatively about their lives in and out of the service.
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Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021, 2021 October 4
Description: Tracking down the exact location and date of an archival photograph.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Photography
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 November 3, 2021
Description: Photographs of the Kismet Temple, now a Baptist church, in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture, Neighborhood history, Bedford-stuyvesant
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 December 20, 2021
Description: Visitors to the Center for Brooklyn History on Pierrepont Street sometimes ask if the building served another purpose before it was a historical society. The answer is—it was always a historical society! Built in 1881, the Queen Anne-style building was designed by architect George Browne Post.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture, Library history
Creator: Deborah Tint , Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 February 15, 2022
Description: This gangly construction was the brainchild of Rev. Dr. James Donohoe of St. Thomas Aquinas Church at 9th Street and 4th Avenue who, desiring to fund the construction of a new school to serve his parish, struck on the idea of offering outdoor picture shows on the planned school site.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Religion, Entertainment
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 April 8, 2022
Description: We see our model festooned with the extravagant jewelry, standing in front of books like Art index and Music index, a clue that she is in the reference section in the Art and Music division of the library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, War, Library staff
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 May 27, 2022
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week features a photogenic protest against the curtailment of postal service.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Politics, Civil Services, Animals
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 July 21, 2022
Description: In 2015, BHS received a generous grant from Gerry Charitable Trust to digitize and catalog seven scrapbooks from the Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks collection. Armbruster was an amateur photographer and NYC historian during the early 20th century.
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Subject: Photography, Photo of the Week
Creator: Deborah Tint , Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 September 8, 2022
Description: A nursing class at Prospect Heights Hospital, complete with model skeleton.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Science, Health
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 October 21, 2022
Description: I’ve been a social dancer most of my life, and the form closest to my heart is Lindy hop. I was interested to see what I could find in the archive that documented Lindy and other social dance activity in Brooklyn. I focused on partnered social dance and skirted (pun intended) the art of performance.
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Subject: Entertainment
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 December 1, 2022
Description: The Photo of the Week features a sledding scene in Prospect Park on New Year’s Day in 1978. This photograph was taken by Donald L. Nowlan, a long-time Brooklyn resident, who grew up in Park Slope and lived at 470 3rd Street.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Prospect Park, Weather
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 January 2, 2023
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week comes from the collection of Laura Fitzpatrick, who began taking pictures at age 11 of her friends, family and neighbors in Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, during the years 1938-1948.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Photography, Black history
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 February 23, 2023
Description: This photo of the week, taken in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1935, makes the flowers look like they are glowing.
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Subject: Nature, Photo of the Week, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 March 23, 2023
Description: In spring of 1916 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle posted a challenge to the children of Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties: make a birdhouse for the birds of Long Island.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals, Children
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 August 28, 2023
Description: I became interested in the subject of Freemasonry after happening upon several pictures of African American Masons in our Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs.
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Subject: Black history, Race
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 October 10, 2023
Description: Today’s dramatic Photo of the Week documents a slick Flatbush burglary with an unusual conclusion.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Crime, Brooklyn Eagle
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 December 1, 2023
Description: This Photo of the Week shows one inventive owner’s novel idea to boost his business.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Food
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2024 February 21, 2024
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