Title: Slave births 1799-1801

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/01/03/slave-births-1799-1801/

Description: Tracking slave births in the Records of Kings County on microfilm.

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Subject:   Black history,  Race

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: The Flying Dutchman

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/01/06/flying-dutchman/

Description: The history of long-running Brooklyn school Erasmus Hall, a partner with the Brooklyn Connections program.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections,  School History

Title: The New Brooklyn Cookbook: Author Talk with Melissa Vaughan and Michael Harlan Turkell, Wednesday, J

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/01/19/new-brooklyn-cookbook/

Description: A talk with author Melissa Vaughan and photographer Michael Harlan Turkell on The New Brooklyn Cookbook.

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Subject:   Events,  Food

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: The Coney Island House Register: a literary mystery

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/01/26/coney-island-house/

Description: The register of Coney Island's first hotel, Coney Island House, and some of its famous signatures, which may or may not be authentic.

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Subject:   Coney Island,  Literature

Title: Happy Groundhog Day!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/02/happy-groundhog-day/

Description: Documentation of groundhogs and Groundhog Day in the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Animals

Title: Postscript: the Coney Island House Register

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/08/postscript-coney-island/

Description: A follow up post about the Coney Island House register.

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Subject:   Coney Island,  Literature

Title: Famous Brooklyn Alumni

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/13/famous-brooklyn-alumni/

Description: A quiz on famous Brooklynites from their yearbook entries.

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Subject:   School History,  People

Title: Storytime

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/15/storytime/

Description: Thomas Hudson Jones's entrance grille for the Central Library.

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Subject:   Library history,  Arts

Title: Famous Brooklyn Alumni -- Revealed!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/16/famous-brooklyn-alumni/

Description: A follow up post revealing the famous Brooklynites' yearbook pictures featured in an earlier post.

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Subject:   School History,  People

Title: Beyond Weeksville: An Evening with Genealogist and Author Wilhelmina Kelly, Weds. February 29th, 6:

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/22/beyond-weeksville-evening/

Description: An evening with genealogist and author Wilhelmina Kelly, who will explore the early history of Black Brooklyn through its burial grounds, organizations, and neighborhoods.

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Subject:   Genealogy,  Events,  Black history

Title: Most Beautiful Grandmother

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/22/most-beautiful/

Description: Coney Island's "Most Beautiful Grandmother Contest."

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Subject:   Coney Island

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: Manhunt!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/02/manhunt/

Description: A 1947 hunt for nine felons escaped from Brooklyn's Raymond Street Jail.

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Subject:   Crime

Title: The Longest List

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/06/longest-list/

Description: The long list of subject headings that make up the Brooklyn Eagle photo morgue.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle

Title: New Online Home for Brooklyn Connections!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/09/new-online-home-brooklyn/

Description: The launch of a new website for Brooklyn Connections.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections,  Projects

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: From the children's book shelf

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/21/childrens-book-shelf/

Description: Brooklyn-themed children's books.

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Subject:   Children

Title: A Vanished Vista: the Changing Landscape of Prospect Park's Vale of Cashmere

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/23/vanished-vista-changing/

Description: The history of Prospect Park's Vale of Cashmere.

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Subject:   Prospect Park

Title: She's Mad Real: Author Talk with Oneka LaBennett Wednesday, March 28th, 6:30pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/26/shes-mad-real-author-talk/

Description: An author talk with Oneka LaBennett on her book She's Mad Real.

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Subject:   Events,  Women,  Flatbush,  Crown Heights

Title: Hair

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/27/hair/

Description: Different women's hairstyles in Brooklyn history, particularly the bob.

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Subject:   Women

Title: All Fools' Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/02/all-fools-day/

Description: Documentation of April Fool's Day's past in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Holidays

Title: Brooklyn City Directories Online!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/03/brooklyn-city-directories/

Description: Announcing the digitization of the Brooklyn City Directories.

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Subject:   Directories,  Projects

Title: Brooklyn's Congressman for half a century, Emanuel Celler

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/03/brooklyns-congressman/

Description: Selections from the Emanuel Celler collection.

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Subject:   Politics,  People

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: Digitized City Directories

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/10/digitized-city/

Description: An overview of the recently digitized city directories.

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Subject:   Directories,  Projects

Title: Not my family's story

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/17/not-my-familys-story/

Description: The story of Gerhard Melvin Dahl, onetime Director of the BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit) Corporation, and some of the scandal he was involved in.

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Subject:   People,  Transportation,  Politics

Title: The Letters of James W. Vanderhoef

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/18/letters-james-w/

Description: A collection of Civil War-era correspondence.

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Subject:   People,  War

Title: Baseball in Brooklyn: Author talk with Andrew Mele

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/24/baseball-brooklyn-author/

Description: Author talk with Andrew Mele, author of The Boys of Brooklyn: The Parade Grounds-Brooklyn's Field of Dreams, and The Brooklyn Dodgers Reader .

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Subject:   Sports,  Baseball,  Events

Title: Searching for a lost art...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/26/searching-lost-art/

Description: Exploring Italian heritage in Brooklyn through the art of Sicilian puppetry, or Opera dei Pupi.

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Subject:   Arts,  Entertainment,  Immigration

Title: A Black Church in Williamsburgh

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/04/black-church/

Description: Exploring the A.M.E. Zion Church Collection.

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Subject:   Black history,  Religion

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: I Hear A Song Comin' On

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/10/i-hear-song-comin/

Description: Selections from the Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: The Rainone Family Papers: Italian Americans in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/17/rainone-family-papers/

Description: The Rainone-Morra Family Papers, documenting an Italian family in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Immigration

Title: The Glory of Brooklyn's Gowanus

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/22/glory-brooklyns-gowanus/

Description: Photographer Leslie-Arlette Boyce and numerous other artists as they talk about the Gowanus Canal and the influence this historic waterway has on their work.

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Subject:   Arts,  Photography,  Events,  Gowanus

Title: Byrd's Eye View

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/24/byrds-eye-view/

Description: Brooklyn Eagle coverage of Richard Evelyn Byrd, the scientist and explorer, including his flight over the North Pole with Brooklyn resident and aviator Floyd Bennett.

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Subject:   People,  Science

Title: Holidays, Observed and Otherwise

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/25/holidays-observed-and/

Description: Images of historic Brooklyn Memorial Days.

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Subject:   Holidays

Title: Spread Love, It's the Brooklyn Way

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/30/spread-love-its-brooklyn/

Description: A farewell post from Leslie Shope, director of Brooklyn Connections.

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Subject:   Library staff,  Brooklyn Connections

Title: The Peet Residence

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/04/peet-residence/

Description: 19th century photos of the Peet family and their residence.

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Subject:   Architecture

Title: Class of 2012

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/08/class-2012/

Description: The annual year-end celebration for the Brooklyn Connections program.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: Whotypes? Albertypes!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/11/whotypes-albertypes/

Description: Albertype photographs in the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Photography

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: Kings Castle

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/21/kings-castle/

Description: The history of chess in Brooklyn, including grandmaster Bobby Fischer.

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Subject:   Sports

Title: There's No Place Like Home

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/25/theres-no-place-home/

Description: Homing pigeons in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Animals

Title: Sing (and dance) The Body Electric!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/29/sing-and-dance-body/

Description: An original musical titled I, Walt Whitman at Brooklyn College.

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Subject:   Entertainment,  Whitman, Walt

Title: The Laura C. Holloway Letters

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/07/05/laura-c-holloway-letters/

Description: Announcing a full finding aid for the Laura C. Holloway Letters.

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Subject:   People,  Women

Title: The Photography of Anders Goldfarb: A Form of Compassion

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/07/11/photography-anders/

Description: A short video interview with photographer Anders Goldfarb.

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Subject:   Photography,  Goldfarb, Anders

Title: The Little Fugitives Part I

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/07/16/little-fugitives-part-i/

Description: Stories about runaway children in the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Children

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: Brooklyn Olympians

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/07/26/brooklyn-olympians/

Description: Olympians from Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Sports

Title: Brooklyn Hero : Burton Turkus and the Murder Inc. Trials by Guest Blogger Abby Rubin

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/08/01/brooklyn-hero-burton/

Description: An overview of the Burton Turkus Collection, written by processing intern Abby Rubin.

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Subject:   Crime

Title: Philip's of Coney Island

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/08/08/philips-coney-island/

Description: The history of Philip's Candy Store in Coney Island.

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Subject:   Coney Island,  Food

Title: Make that a double...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/08/15/make-double/

Description: Brooklyn twins and triplets documented in the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Children

Title: Edwin Roberts: Photographer, Tennis Enthusiast, Man of Mystery

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/08/21/edwin-roberts/

Description: Early 1900s photographs of the Knickerbocker Field Club in Flatbush by Edwin Roberts, and some research into the photographer's identity.

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Subject:   Sports,  Flatbush,  Photography

Title: Expanded Hours

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/08/30/expanded-hours/

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Subject:   Library history

Title: Brooklynites at the 1948 National Republican Convention

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/09/04/brooklynites-1948/

Description: Brooklynites at the 1948 Republican National Convention.

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Subject:   Politics

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: My Brooklyn, documentary screening and talk with Director Kelly Anderson, Wednesday, Sept. 19th, 7pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/09/17/my-brooklyn-documentary/

Description: Screening of the documentary My Brooklyn and a talk with Director Kelly Anderson. The film is about gentrification, specifically in the Fulton Mall area of Downtown Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Events,  Film,  Downtown Brooklyn

Title: Welcome to MS 57

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/09/25/welcome-ms-57/

Description: The history of Middle School 57 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a partner with the Brooklyn Connections program.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections,  School History,  Bedford-Stuyvesant

Title: The Little Fugitives Part II

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/10/02/little-fugitives-part-ii/

Description: More stories of runaway children from the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Children

Title: New Exhibition at Brooklyn Collection: "Brooklyn, Then and Now" Photography Project

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/10/11/new-exhibition-brooklyn/

Description: An exhibit of then and now photographs organized by teen interns.

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Subject:   Photography,  Exhibits

Title: Clubbed to death

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/10/17/clubbed-death/

Description: The Hanover Club, a turn-of-the-century social club in Brooklyn.

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Title: A Hen Goes to Brownsville

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/10/25/hen-goes-brownsville/

Description: Yiddish materials from the Sheet Music Collection.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: Making the Stars Shine

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/08/making-stars-shine/

Description: Brooklyn fashion designer to the stars El Gee (or Elgee) Bove.

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Subject:   People,  Clothing

Title: An all too familiar sight

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/14/all-too-familiar-sight/

Description: A 19th century image of a storm from the Prints Collection.

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Subject:   Weather,  Prints Collection

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: Handmade in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/26/handmade-brooklyn/

Description: Brooklyn's Industrial Home for the Blind and the goods produced there.

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Subject:   Social Welfare

Title: Author Talk: Henrik Krogius on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Wednesday November 28th, 6:30pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/27/author-talk-henrik/

Description: Brooklyn Heights Press editor Henrik Krogius discusses his book The Brooklyn Heights Promenade.

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Subject:   Events,  Brooklyn Heights

Title: Teacher Professional Developments

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/27/teacher-professional/

Description: Professional development workshops with Brooklyn Connections.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: Out with the old, in with the... old?

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/12/05/out-old-old/

Description: An introduction to BPL's new catalog.

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Subject:   Library history,  Projects

Title: On View Now: Jamel Shabazz

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/12/13/view-now-jamel-shabazz/

Description: An exhibit of work by photographer Jamel Shabazz.

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Subject:   Photography,  Shabazz, Jamel,  Exhibits

Title: The hundred dollar handkerchief.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/12/18/hundred-dollar/

Description: Christmas advertisements in Brooklyn Life magazine.

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Subject:   Holidays

Title: To Number a School

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/12/20/number-school/

Description: The history of PS 26, among other schools.

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Subject:   School History

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: Happy New Year from the Brooklyn Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/12/31/happy-new-year-brooklyn/

Description: A vintage new year's photograph edited and animated.

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Subject:   Holidays