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Description: In this Photo of the Week, a Brighton Beach-goer seems to both respect and enjoy the local avifauna perched upon him.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 December 4, 2023
Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church in Greenpoint where Brooke the cat is being blessed by a priest during a Blessing of the Animals event circa 2010. The man holding Brooke, Joseph R. Lentol, was New York State Assemblyman for Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Fort Greene from 1972 to 2020.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals , Politics, Religion
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 October 2, 2023
Description: Today's Photo of the Week is from the Daniel Berry Austin collection. Austin was an amateur photographer whose subjects often included farms and landscapes. This photo, of one of the buffalo's at the Prospect Park Zoo, was taken in 1902.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 September 18, 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: This Photo of the Week highlights what at first seems to be a perfectly ordinary horse-drawn carriage. However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the team of six is not drawing a carriage, but rather a toilet.
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Subject: Animals , Photo of the Week, Industry, Transportation
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 May 30, 2023
Description: In this Photo of the Week, Brooklynites of two and four legs are lured to what appears to be a refreshing fountain on a warm day.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 April 3, 2023
Description: This Photo of the Week showcases an Abraham & Straus publicity stunt that was captured by The Brooklyn Daily Eagle on December 13, 1908, featuring “Teddy, the Smallest Horse in the World, Attached to a Miniature Abraham & Straus Delivery Wagon.”
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2022 November 28, 2022
Description: In the bright sun, five Black children squat down on the ground, forming a semicircle. Irving Herzberg (b. 1915- d. 1991) took this black-and-white photograph, and it is one of several soon to be added to the growing Irving I. Herzberg photograph collection.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals , Children, Herzberg, Irving
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 October 13, 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: They probably won’t need a bigger boat to haul in this little shark, caught off the coast of Sheepshead Bay.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals , Sheepshead Bay
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 February 7, 2022
Description: With a nod to that event, this week’s Photo of the Week takes us back to June 1935, when Brooklyn’s four-legged friends marched along Eastern Parkway competing in their own dog show of sorts: the Brooklyn Dog and Horse Parade, sponsored by the Brooklyn office of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Subject: Animals , Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 November 23, 2021
Description: Today's photo of the week comes from the recently processed Kasper Family Collection. The Kasper family lived at the Manhattan Beach Veterans Housing Project in South Brooklyn in the late 1940s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals , War, Neighborhood history, Manhattan Beach
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 August 16, 2021
Description: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, spring marked the return of sheep to Prospect Park.
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Subject: Prospect Park, Animals , Photo of the Week
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021, 2021 April 26
Description: Selections from ephemera discovered in the Brooklyn Collection clipping files.
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Subject: Ephemera Collection, LGBTQ history, Animals , Library history, Transportation
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2020 March 11, 2020
Description: Historic tales of goats in Brooklyn, inspired by goats coming to Prospect Park for weed control.
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Subject: Animals , Prospect Park
Creator: Alla Roylance
Date: 2016 May 20, 2016
Description: The story of an embalmed whale exhibited worldwide, including in Coney Island in 1953, where it caught fire and was ultimately ruined.
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Subject: Coney Island, Animals
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015 October 2, 2015
Description: More on the history of the Prospect Park Zoo.
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Subject: Prospect Park, Animals
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2014 March 19, 2014
Description: The origins of the Prospect Park Zoo.
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Subject: Prospect Park, Animals
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2014 March 13, 2014
Description: Homing pigeons in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Animals
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2012 June 25, 2012
Description: Documentation of groundhogs and Groundhog Day in the Brooklyn Collection.
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Subject: Holidays, Animals
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2012 February 2, 2012
Description: A rescue of 40 abandoned cats from a Brooklyn storefront.
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Subject: Animals
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 January 23, 2012
Description: A turtle named Floyd who visited the same bar in Bay Ridge every spring.
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Subject: Animals , Bay Ridge
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 November 22, 2010
Description: Two Brooklyn parrot owners and their stories.
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Subject: Little-Known Brooklyn Residents, Animals
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010, 2010 September 20
Description: Vintage cat photographs from the Brooklyn Eagle morgue.
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Subject: Animals , Brooklyn Eagle
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010, 2010 August 17
Description: The ASPCA in Brooklyn and a 1935 dog and horse parade.
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Subject: Animals
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2010, 2010 July 7
Description: Snake stories from the Brooklyn Eagle morgue.
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Subject: Animals , Brooklyn Eagle
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 June 14, 2010
Description: Stories of Brooklyn dogs from the Eagle photo morgue.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Animals
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 April 19, 2010
Description: Midcentury photographs from the Brooklyn-Long Island Cat Club's annnual show.
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Subject: Animals
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2009 August 19, 2009
Description: Pet shows at Central Library in the 1950s.
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Subject: Library history, Animals
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 July 27
Description: Birds of Prospect Park, published in 1951 by the Brooklyn Bird Club.
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Subject: Animals , Prospect Park
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2009, 2009 April 15
Description: Elsie the Cow, the world famous mascot for Borden Milk Products.
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Subject: Food, Animals
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 April 12
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