Title: Big Appetites, Little Pizzas

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/03/big-appetites-little/

Description: One of the first frozen pizza manufacturers, the Petite Foods Corporation, and their mini pizzas, made in Brooklyn and documented by the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Food

Title: Hit Parade, January 4, 1947

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/04/hit-parade-january-4-1947/

Description: Another excerpt from the diary of Arthur Lonto, this one listing songs in a "hit parade."

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Subject:   Lonto, Arthur

Title: E.W. Bliss Co: Torpedoes and Telegraph Codes

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/06/ew-bliss-co-torpedoes-and/

Description: A 1901 catalogue of the products made by Brooklyn's E.W. Bliss Co. and a history of the company.

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Subject:   Industry

Title: When the Boro's Milk Vanished

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/11/when-boros-milk-vanished/

Description: A strike among dairy workers causes a milk shortage.

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Subject:   Food,  Industry,  Labor

Title: Strange as it May Seem

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/13/strange-it-may-seem/

Description: 1933 selections from "Strange as it May Seem," a Brooklyn Eagle column featuring signs from around the borough.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle

Title: Pfizer Family Products--a Window Into The 1950s, by guest blogger Christine Modica.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/21/pfizer-family-products/

Description: A box of Pfizer brand "family products" donated to the Brooklyn Collection, and a short history of the company.

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Subject:   Industry

Title: The Demon Barber of Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/24/demon-barber-brooklyn/

Description: "Jack the Snipper," a man who cut hair off of Brooklyn girls in the 19th century.

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Subject:   Crime

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: The Many Faces of Henry Ward Beecher

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/02/many-faces-henry-ward/

Description: Historic depictions of Henry Ward Beecher, from formal portraits to advertisements to political cartoons.

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Subject:   Beecher, Henry Ward

Title: From the Ephemera Files: an Imperfect Paradise in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/09/ephemera-files-imperfect/

Description: A 1935 promotional brochure from the Manhattan Beach and Oriental Beach Baths prompts a deep dive into the neighborhood's history.

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Subject:   Ephemera Collection,  Manhattan Beach,  Neighborhood history

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: Dodger Babies

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/17/dodger-babies/

Description: Photographs of Brooklyn Dodgers' home lives, including their children.

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Subject:   Sports,  Children,  Baseball

Title: Days of Wine and Onions: Garrett & Co and Virginia Dare

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/22/days-wine-and-onions/

Description: Garrett & Co, makers of Virginia Dare wine and flavoring extracts at Brooklyn's Bush Terminal.

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Subject:   Food,  Industry

Title: Presidents Don't Use Rain Delays

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/25/presidents-dont-use-rain/

Description: A rainy visit to Ebbets Field from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Subject:   Weather,  Politics,  Sports,  Baseball

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: How photos get from the archives to the web site by Micah Vandegrift

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/03/how-photos-get-archives/

Description: An overview of the work of Project CHART, a grant-funded initiative to digitize historic Brooklyn materials.

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Subject:   Projects

Title: The Joy of Processing: a peek into the Bernard Green Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/08/joy-processing-peek/

Description: An overview of the Bernard Green Collection, comprising materials related to composer Bernard Green.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: Brooklyn's Vitaphone Studios

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/10/brooklyns-vitaphone/

Description: The Vitagraph and Vitaphone Studios and the entertainments they produced.

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Subject:   Industry,  Entertainment

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: Gentrifiers and Nannies: two new books, two upcoming author talks

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/21/gentrifiers-and-nannies/

Description: Author talks on Suleiman Osman's The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York and Tamara Mose Brown's Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare and Caribbeans Creating Community.

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Subject:   Events,  Children,  Urban Development,  Women,  Immigration

Title: Is it un-American for mothers to work?

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/24/it-un-american-mothers/

Description: The Mayor's Committee on Wartime Care of Children, which helped mothers who went to work in WWII.

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Subject:   Women,  War,  Social Welfare

Title: The Loneliness of the Skyscraper Window-Washer

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/24/loneliness-skyscraper/

Description: Ed Kemp, a midcentury window washer with Brooklyn's Standard House and Window Cleaning Company, and other stories of window washers in the borough.

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Subject:   People,  Labor

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: Summers of Fear

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/05/summers-fear/

Description: The effect of polio on the Brooklyn community.

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Subject:   Health,  Social Welfare,  Children

Title: From the annals of Brooklyn's musical history: The Tollefsens.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/12/annals-brooklyns-musical/

Description: Carl Tollefsen, founder of the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, and his wife Augusta.

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Subject:   Entertainment,  People

Title: Introducing Gertrude Hoffman

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/14/introducing-gertrude/

Description: The personal papers, photographs and scrapbooks of the early 20th-century dancer, Gertrude Hoffman [Hoffmann].

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Subject:   Entertainment,  Hoffmann, Gertrude

Title: Kosher for Passover

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/19/kosher-passover/

Description: A selection of Irving Herzberg's photographs of Passover celebrations in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Herzberg, Irving,  Photography

Title: Gertrude Hoffman, Outlaw Dancer

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/21/gertrude-hoffman-outlaw/

Description: The scandal of Gertrude Hoffman [Hoffmann]'s Salome dance.

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Subject:   Hoffmann, Gertrude,  Entertainment

Title: Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York to present on April 27th

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/24/hispanic-genealogical/

Description: A presentation by Charlie Fourquet of the Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York.

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Subject:   Events,  Genealogy,  Race

Title: Tearin' It Up

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/25/tearin-it/

Description: A collection of Brooklyn-inspired collages.

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Subject:   Exhibits,  Arts

Title: The Answer to All of Life's Problems

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/28/answer-all-lifes-problems/

Description: Advice from Dr. Byron Norton via the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle

Title: The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: An Illustrated Talk by Suleiman Osman, Weds May 11, 7 P.M.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/02/invention-brownstone/

Description: A book talk by Suleiman Osman.

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Subject:   Events,  Urban Development

Title: How sweet it was...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/05/how-sweet-it-was/

Description: Sugar refining in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Food,  Industry

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: Defying Fate: the macabre antics of Brooklyn's Thirteen Club

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/13/defying-fate-macabre/

Description: Brooklyn's own anti-superstition league, the Thirteen Club.

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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: From Records to Data: Seeing and sharing digital cultural heritage collections differently with Reco

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/17/records-data-seeing-and/

Description: A demonstration of Recollection software by Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist at the Library of Congress. Funded by Project CHART.

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Subject:   Events

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: The Brooklyn Bridge Centennial: Party like it's 1983!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/25/brooklyn-bridge/

Description: Documentation of the Brooklyn Bridge's 1983 centennial celebrations.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Bridge,  Bridges

Title: It's #AskArchivists Day!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/09/its-askarchivists-day/

Description: Brooklyn Collection staff and other archivists worldwide answer questions on social media via the hashtag #AskArchivists for International Archives Day.

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Subject:   Library staff

Title: A Season to Forget: 1951 Scandal Mars LIU Basketball Program, by Nora Almeida

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/09/season-forget-1951/

Description: Guest post from Nora Almeida of Project CHART on a New York City college basketball gambling scandal in 1951.

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Subject:   Sports,  Crime

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: From the annals of Brooklyn's musical history: BAM in the early 1930s

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/15/annals-brooklyns-musical/

Description: 1930s concerts at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and some of the artists who participated.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: New Eagle Online tutorial narrated by resident Brit

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/20/new-eagle-online-tutorial/

Description: A video tutorial for navigating the new Eagle Online portal.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Projects

Title: Chris Webber talks about James W.C. Pennington, Fugitive Slave and Black Abolitionist. Tonight!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/22/chris-webber-talks-about/

Description: A talk with Chris Webber.

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Subject:   Events,  Race,  Black history

Title: Brooklyn takes to the Skies. Part I

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/23/brooklyn-takes-skies-part/

Description: The question of whether Brooklyn should have a centralized terminal for traveling to area airports.

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Subject:   Transportation,  Urban Development

Title: Taking it to the Streets: Bookmobiles and Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/29/taking-it-streets/

Description: A history of library bookmobiles in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Library history

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: Rumble on the Docks: teen warfare hits Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/12/rumble-docks-teen-warfare/

Description: Midcentury adolescent gangs in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Crime,  Children

Title: Gardens of Brooklyn Part I: 1930s WPA Subsistence Gardens.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/18/gardens-brooklyn-part-i/

Description: WPA gardens in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   War,  Nature

Title: No Ancestry.com in Reserve Room July 25-29 due to Storycorps interviews

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/18/no-ancestrycom-reserve/

Description: Due to StoryCorps interviews the Reserve Room will be unavailable to researchers.

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Subject:   Projects

Title: Gardens of Brooklyn Part II: Victory Gardens

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/19/gardens-brooklyn-part-ii/

Description: Victory gardens in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   War,  Nature

Title: Historypin in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/19/historypin-brooklyn/

Description: Brooklyn Collection content on the Historypin app.

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Subject:   Projects

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: Beat the Heat! Visit the Brooklyn Collection's New Exhibit!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/26/beat-heat-visit-brooklyn/

Description: An exhibit of student work from the Brooklyn Connections program.

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Subject:   Exhibits,  Brooklyn Connections

Title: The Excellent Acoustic Properties of a Sewer; or, Mayor Low's Wild Ride

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/26/excellent-acoustic/

Description: The "Great Storm Sewer" built in Brooklyn in 1891 and the many who visited the engineering marvel.

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Subject:   Politics

Title: On the Road with the Eagle

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/01/road-eagle/

Description: The Brooklyn Eagle National Parks Tour.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle

Title: Brooklyn takes to the Skies Part II

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/04/brooklyn-takes-skies-part/

Description: The Brooklyn Airlines Terminals and the midcentury aviation craze in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Transportation

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: For Those Who Would A-Wheeling Go

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/10/those-who-would-wheeling/

Description: A brief history of early bicycling habits in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Transportation

Title: Luna Parks Galore

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/19/luna-parks-galore/

Description: Various places around the world named Luna Park like the famous Coney Island amusement park.

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Subject:   Coney Island

Title: The Eagle Cookbook and the Brooklyn Diet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/23/eagle-cookbook-and/

Description: The Eagle Cookbook's recipes and advertisements and what they say about diets in Brooklyn in the 1920s.

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Subject:   Food

Title: A Lump of the Old Jersey

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/25/lump-old-jersey/

Description: A piece supposedly from the Old Jersey prison ship, anchored off of Brooklyn during the Revolutionary War.

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Subject:   War

Title: New Funding Promises a Bright Future for Brooklyn Connections!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/29/new-funding-promises/

Description: New funding for the Brooklyn Connections program and what it will provide.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

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: The Chewing Gum King

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/07/chewing-gum-king/

Description: Thomas Adams, who invented a new kind of chewing gum and produced it in Brooklyn, and his mansion in Park Slope.

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Subject:   People,  Industry,  Architecture

Title: Annals of a Brooklyn Cop

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/13/annals-brooklyn-cop/

Description: The daily log of New York City police officer Louis F. Welge.

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Subject:   People,  Civil Services

Title: Gotta go to Mo's

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/20/gotta-go-mos/

Description: The history of Modell's Sporting Goods in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Industry

Title: Back in the Days: Author Talk with photographer Jamel Shabazz, Wednesday Sept. 28, 6:30pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/22/back-days-author-talk/

Description: Author Talk with photographer Jamel Shabazz.

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Subject:   Events,  Photography,  Shabazz, Jamel

Title: Blowing our horn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/29/blowing-our-horn/

Description: A selection of photographs depicting the blowing of the shofar, a horn trumpet blown to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.

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Subject:   Religion,  Holidays

Title: From the 16mm Film Collection: the Library, a Family Affair

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/10/06/16mm-film-collection/

Description: A 1952 film in the Brooklyn Collection's 16mm film collection featuring Brooklyn Public Library.

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Subject:   Film,  Library history,  School History

Title: The Philanthropist, His Oil, His Institute, and a Library

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/10/17/philanthropist-his-oil/

Description: A brief history of the Pratt Institute and the business and fortunes of its founder, Charles Pratt.

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Subject:   School History,  Industry,  Library history

Title: Bushwick Avenue: A Preservation Plan. Weds Oct 26 at 6:30 P.M.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/10/20/bushwick-avenue/

Description: Students from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Preservation Planning talk about their research uncovering the rich architectural history of Bushwick Avenue, and the preservation plan they produced as a result.

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Subject:   Events,  Architecture,  Bushwick,  Urban Development

Title: Haunted Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/10/24/haunted-brooklyn/

Description: Tales of ghosts and hauntings in 19th century Brooklyn.

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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: Down with washtubs!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/07/down-washtubs/

Description: The history of Public Bathhouse no. 7, now the Brooklyn Lyceum, in Park Slope.

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Subject:   Architecture,  Park Slope

Title: Meet the Brooklyn Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/07/meet-brooklyn-collection/

Description: A video tour of the Brooklyn Collection and introduction to the staff.

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Subject:   Library staff

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: The bullfighter from Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/14/bullfighter-brooklyn/

Description: The story of Sidney Franklin, a young Jewish boy who became a bullfighter in Spain after training in Mexico.

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Subject:   People,  Sports

Title: Welcome Home, Soldier.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/17/welcome-home-soldier/

Description: Housing for WWII veterans in Brooklyn, including Quonset houses. Some housing was designed for disabled veterans.

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Subject:   War,  Housing

Title: A Day to Give Thanks

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/18/day-give-thanks/

Description: Vintage Thanksgiving materials from the Brooklyn Collection, including recipes.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Food

Title: New Exhibit Opening and Film Program, Weds. November 30th at 6:30pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/25/new-exhibit-opening-and/

Description: Announcing a new exhibit of then and now photographs by teen interns and a film program showing To Brooklyn and Back, the personal story of Mohawk filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell from Kahnawake, Quebec as she explores her roots and traces the connections of her family to the once legendary Mohawk community in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Exhibits,  Film,  Native history

Title: Calling all Teachers!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/29/calling-all-teachers/

Description: Professional development workshops for teaches put on by Brooklyn Connections.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: To Brooklyn and Back

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/30/brooklyn-and-back/

Description: Presenting "To Brooklyn and Back - A Mohawk Story" at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Native history,  Events,  Film,  Race

Title: It's what's for dinner

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/02/its-whats-dinner/

Description: A postwar meat shortage's effects in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Industry,  Food

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: Literary Brooklyn: Author Talk with Evan Hughes, Weds. December 14th, 6:30pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/13/literary-brooklyn-author/

Description: An author talk with Evan Hughes, author of Literary Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Events,  Literature

Title: Susan B. Anthony to Laura C. Holloway

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/15/susan-b-anthony-laura-c/

Description: Laura C. Holloway's letters at the Brooklyn Collection, including correspondence with Susan B. Anthony.

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Subject:   Women,  People

Title: You better watch out, you better not cry...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/22/you-better-watch-out-you/

Description: Depictions of Santa Claus in the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Holidays

Title: Three Brooklyn Memoirs

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/27/three-brooklyn-memoirs/

Description: Three recent Brooklyn memoirs: Martin Levinson' Brooklyn Boomer, Jerry Castaldo's Brooklyn NY: a Grim Retrospective, Nicole Scarcella's Made in Sicily Born in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   People

Title: New Year's Resolution: Take the Plunge

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/28/new-years-resolution-take/

Description: The Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Coney Island