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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: Babes named (in) Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/06/08/babes-named-brooklyn/

Description: Library resources for naming babies.

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Subject:   Children

Title: Clara Whitehill Hunt, Superintendent of Work With Children

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/02/19/clara-whitehill-hunt/

Description: Clara Whitehill Hunt, pioneering BPL children's librarian.

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Subject:   Library history,  Children ,  Library staff

Title: The Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/25/brooklyn-society/

Description: Excerpts from turn-of-the-century reports of The Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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Subject:   Children ,  Social Welfare

Title: You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/08/12/you-must-have-been/

Description: Brooklyn's "baby parade," held in conjunction with Coney Island's Mardi Gras.

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Subject:   Children ,  Coney Island

Title: A Brooklyn Child's Christmas List, 1953

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/16/brooklyn-childs-christmas/

Description: Midcentury toys from Abraham & Straus Department Store in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Children ,  Holidays

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: We Don't Need No Education

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/06/01/we-dont-need-no-education/

Description: A student strike in Brooklyn in 1950.

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Subject:   School History,  Children

Title: Toddlers in Tiaras of Yesteryear

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/12/17/toddlers-tiaras/

Description: The Queen of Tots beauty pageant at the Infants Home of Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Children ,  Social Welfare

Title: Before "organic" was even a notion...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/07/09/organic-was-even-notion/

Description: The Betsy Head Farm Garden Photo Collection and a history of the garden.

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Subject:   Photography,  Children ,  Social Welfare

Title: Children of the Dump

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2016/06/10/children-dump/

Description: Life on Barren Island in Jamaica Bay, with a focus on its children and school (PS 120).

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Subject:   Children ,  School History Industry

Title: A Short History of the Saratoga Park Playground

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2020/10/30/short-history-saratoga/

Description: A history of the Saratoga Park Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Subject:   Children ,  Neighborhood history Urban development Bedford-stuyvesant

Title: Brooklyn's Teen Poets

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2020/12/31/brooklyns-teen-poets/

Description: Poetry by teens in the High School Newspaper Collection.

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Subject:   Literature,  Children ,  School History

Title: Water, Water Everywhere

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/08/23/water-water-everywhere/

Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to the intersection of Sutter and Saratoga Avenues in Brownsville in July 1923, when severe storms turned the borough's streets into rivers, flooded subway stations and basements, and caused geysers to erupt from manhole covers.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Weather,  Children

Title: Dressing for Tradition

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/10/04/dressing-for-tradition/

Description: 4 year old Kimberly McEwen dressed to flip the switch at the Brooklyn Heights Garden Club annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

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Subject:   Children ,  Photo of the Week Holidays Clothing

Title: On a Boat Built for One

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/03/07/boat-built-for-one/

Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to a scene on the Canarsie Creek in 1924 where 1-year-old, William Johnson, floats in a little toy boat next to a skiff holding an unidentified man and boy.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Children ,  Our Streets Our Stories

Title: The Evolution of Thought: Work by Lucille Fornasieri Gold

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/03/14/evolution-thought-work/

Description: This week's Photo of the Week highlights the work of Lucille Fornasieri Gold, a Brooklyn photographer.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Photography,  Children

Title: Sun and Sea Therapy for Children

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/04/04/sun-and-sea-therapy-for/

Description: The Seaside Home for Children, run by the Brooklyn Children's Aid Society, was a seasonal charitable facility for sick and lower-income children and their mothers.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Children ,  Social Welfare Coney Island

Title: Kindergarten Class at Fort Greene Park

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/06/10/kindergarten-class-fort/

Description: The photo of the week depicts a kindergarten class in Fort Greene Park around 1910.

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Subject:   Children ,  Photography Photo of the Week Social Welfare

Title: A Child's Bedroom in 1880

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/09/19/childs-bedroom-1880/

Description: Taken around 1880, the image shows a number of dolls standing and sitting in the room, looking disturbingly as if they had just been caught mid-action.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Children

Title: Five Children and a Puppy

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/10/13/five-children-and-puppy/

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

Title: Bundling Up

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/11/21/bundling/

Description: It finally feels like fall in New York and Brooklynites are starting to bundle up. This photo of the week takes us to the sidewalks of 1950s New York where little Cataldo Piccione poses for the camera in his one-piece winter suit.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Children ,  Clothing

Title: Stories a Photo Can Tell

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/01/02/stories-photo-can-tell/

Description: I recently reprocessed the composite collection Early Brooklyn and Long Island photographs (ARC.201). This 1900 class photo from P.S. 15 is included in the collection. Though we have many class photos, it's much more rare for us to actually be able to identify the students in the photos, and even more infrequent to have as many named as this. I decided to use some of our research tools to see if I could flesh out the lives of these promising young graduates.

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Subject:   Women Black history School History,  Children ,  Immigration

Title: A Tale of Two Schools: a Brooklyn-France Connection in the Aftermath of World War II

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/03/01/tale-two-schools-brooklyn/

Description: Brooklyn's Packer Collegiate Institute provided war relief and assistance to a similar school in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France after WWII.

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Subject:   School history War,  Children

Title: Happy Women's History Month from three Queen Esthers

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/03/06/happy-womens-history-0/

Description: Today's photo of the week comes from the Irving I. Herzberg photograph collection. Five Hasidic children stand on the front step of a Williamsburg building on Purim in 1965.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Jewish history Herzberg, Irving,  Children

Title: Penny-farthing

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/22/penny-farthing/

Description: The photo of the week depicts Eddie Tepper posing with a penny-farthing bicycle in 1886.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Sports,  Children

Title: International Lifeguard Appreciation Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/07/31/international-lifeguard/

Description: Celebrate International Lifeguard Appreciation Day (July 31) with this Photo of the Week, which ran in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20th, 1951.

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Subject:   Children ,  Photo of the Week

Title: These Homes are for the Birds

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/08/28/these-homes-are-for-birds

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

Title: Halloween Inspiration

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/10/10/halloween-inspiration

Description: Tis the season to get your Halloween costumes ready! Need inspiration? Perhaps this haunting Photo of the Week can assist.

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Subject:   Children ,  Holidays Photo of the Week

Title: May the Library Be With You

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/10/30/may-library-be-you

Description: A child in a Luke Skywalker Halloween costume poses in the Othmer Library.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Children ,  Photo of the Week

Title: Pint-Sized Pilgrims

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/11/20/pint-sized-pilgrims

Description: Residents of the Infants Home of Brooklyn, located at 1358 56th Street attended their 1951 Thanksgiving dinner dressed as pint-sized pilgrims, ready to hunt their own turkey!

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Children ,  Holidays

Title: Great big beautiful dolls

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/01/22/great-big-beautiful-dolls

Description: In August of 1951, Park Slope kids competed in P.S. 77's "beautiful doll" contest.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Children ,  School History

Title: Ramadan

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/03/04/ramadan

Description: In this photo from the Robert E. Gerhardt, Jr. photograph collection, a young girl stares intently into the camera. She and her father are praying at the Muslim American Society in Bath Beach, 1933 Bath Avenue, in 2010.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Religion,  Children

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