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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: Give a Man a Job!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/02/12/give-man-job/

Description: The history of the NRA, or National Recovery Administration, a New Deal initiative.

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Subject:   Labor ,  Politics

Title: The Night the Lights Went Out in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/09/night-lights-went-out/

Description: A strike by the tugboat crewmen of New York harbor leads to the city practically shutting down.

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Subject:   Industry,  Labor

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: 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

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