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Description: Today, we are looking at the legacy of Executive Director David Kahn and how, under his leadership, the society transitioned to a new era as the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Opening the Pocket Doors , Staff, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2022 December 19, 2022
Description: This week, we are sharing an image of former Brooklyn Historical Society President, Susan Mullin, who both enacted and embodied change within the Historical Society.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Opening the Pocket Doors , Women, Staff, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 February 20, 2023
Description: It’s not every day you get the chance to see what lies underneath the floors of an old building. And while we don’t have any beating hearts underneath our floorboards, this photograph offers us a rare glimpse of the foundation of 128 Pierrepont Street.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors , Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 April 24, 2023
Description: So where was the Long Island Historical Society for the first 18 years of its existence? The society rented several rooms in the Hamilton Building, located on the corner of Court and Joralemon Streets.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors , Library history , Photo of the Week
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 June 19, 2023
Description: Part of the original design by George B. Post, the clock tower has been a part of the building since its construction between the years of 1878 and 1881. However, the clock tower was never installed with an actual mechanism for the clock and has therefore never worked.
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Subject: Library history , Opening the Pocket Doors , Architecture
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 August 21, 2023
Description: If you were to go up to the third floor of 128 Pierrepont and walk to the doors that read “Gina Ingoglia Weiner Gallery” and peer through the windows, you would see a room that currently holds a portion of the Center for Brooklyn History’s collections in neat rows of archival boxes. But this room was not always utilized for storage; prior to a storage room, it was used as an exhibit gallery for the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors , Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 October 23, 2023
Description: In 1868, when the former Long Island Historical Society (LIHS) first purchased the plot of land intended for their new, permanent home, there was a plethora of possibilities.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors , Library history , Architecture
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 November 15, 2023
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