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Brooklynology Blog

Collected by: Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library

Archived since: Jan, 2019

Description:

Brooklynology is the blog of the Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library's local history division and archive.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Arts & Humanities Society & Culture

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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