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Description: Hunting down the identity of a statue found at Central Library, the author identifies it as Henry R. Stiles and explores his life.
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Subject: People , Arts
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2019 June 11, 2019
Description: Profile of the architect Axel Hedman.
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Subject: People , Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2008, 2008 November 28
Description: Buildings that were moved in Brooklyn, in particular the Lefferts Homestead, moved by Thatcher & Sons and documented in the Brooklyn Collection's Thatcher Collection.
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Subject: Architecture, Prints Collection, People , Urban Development
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 February 19
Description: A memorial post for the late Collier Duncan, research assistant at the Brooklyn Collection.
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Subject: People , Library staff
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 October 21
Description: A local resident known as "Brooklyn's Betsy Ross" designed and handcrafted a series of elaborate flags to spread her message of "Lasting World Peace."
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Subject: People , Little-Known Brooklyn Residents
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 March 3, 2010
Description: Nine-year old Jay Erlichman, an amateur treasure hunter.
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Subject: People , Little-Known Brooklyn Residents
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 March 6, 2010
Description: Sam Loyd, mathematician and puzzler.
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Subject: People
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 March 13, 2010
Description: The story of Mary A. Logan, who barely left her neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn in her 101 years of life.
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Subject: People , Greenpoint, Neighborhood history, Little-Known Brooklyn Residents
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 3/23/2010, 2010 March 23, 2010, 2010 March 23, 2010
Description: An excerpt from the diary of Arthur Lonto.
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Subject: People , Baseball, Lonto, Arthur, Sports
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 April 7, 2010
Description: A puzzle column in the Eagle and the story of Upton Sinclair's contribution to it.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, People
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 April 16, 2010
Description: The story of Emil Kulik, who invented a novel diving apparatus in 1932.
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Subject: People , Industry, Little-Known Brooklyn Residents
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 April 21, 2010
Description: More from the diary of Arthur Lonto.
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Subject: Lonto, Arthur, People
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 May 4, 2010
Description: The story of Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, a B.M.T. subway ticket agent who stopped a robbery at her station.
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Subject: People , Transportation, Little-Known Brooklyn Residents
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 May 18, 2010
Description: Dr. Ida Mellen, chief aquarist and ichthyologist at the New York Aquarium.
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Subject: People , Women, Science, Little-Known Brooklyn Residents
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 June 8, 2010
Description: A Bay Ridge couple with a pipe organ in their living room.
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Subject: Little-Known Brooklyn Residents, People
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010, 2010 July 12
Description: Songwriter eden ahbez, who was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
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Subject: Little-Known Brooklyn Residents, People
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010, 2010 July 22
Description: The life and writing of Henry Reed Stiles, including a volume on the practice of "bundling," or cuddling.
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Subject: People
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010, 2010 August 4
Description: Famous bicyclist Charles M. Murphy.
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Subject: People , Little-Known Brooklyn Residents, Sports
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 August 20, 2010
Description: Two elderly Brooklyn residents who danced on their birthdays, as covered by the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Subject: Little-Known Brooklyn Residents, People
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 October 4, 2010
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
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 March 24, 2011
Description: Carl Tollefsen, founder of the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, and his wife Augusta.
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Subject: Entertainment, People
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 April 12, 2011
Description: Arctic explorer Frederick Cook and his fall from grace.
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Subject: People
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 May 10, 2011
Description: More on arctic explorer Frederick Cook, including his still-standing Bushwick mansion.
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Subject: Architecture, People , Bushwick
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 May 16, 2011
Description: A brief biography of Bay Ridge resident Anthony Fiala.
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Subject: People
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 June 13, 2011
Description: Thomas Adams, who invented a new kind of chewing gum and produced it in Brooklyn, and his mansion in Park Slope.
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Subject: People , Industry, Architecture
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2011 September 7, 2011
Description: The daily log of New York City police officer Louis F. Welge.
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Subject: People , Civil Services
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 September 13, 2011
Description: The story of Sidney Franklin, a young Jewish boy who became a bullfighter in Spain after training in Mexico.
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Subject: People , Sports
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 November 14, 2011
Description: Laura C. Holloway's letters at the Brooklyn Collection, including correspondence with Susan B. Anthony.
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Subject: Women, People
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 December 15, 2011
Description: Three recent Brooklyn memoirs: Martin Levinson' Brooklyn Boomer, Jerry Castaldo's Brooklyn NY: a Grim Retrospective, Nicole Scarcella's Made in Sicily Born in Brooklyn.
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Subject: People
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 December 27, 2011
Description: A quiz on famous Brooklynites from their yearbook entries.
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Subject: School History, People
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2012 February 13, 2012
Description: A follow up post revealing the famous Brooklynites' yearbook pictures featured in an earlier post.
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Subject: School History, People
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2012 February 16, 2012
Description: Brooklyn artist Beverly Pepper.
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Subject: People , Arts
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 March 14, 2012
Description: Selections from the Emanuel Celler collection.
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Subject: Politics, People
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 April 3, 2012
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
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2012 April 17, 2012
Description: A collection of Civil War-era correspondence.
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Subject: People , War
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 April 18, 2012
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
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2012 May 24, 2012
Description: Announcing a full finding aid for the Laura C. Holloway Letters.
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Subject: People , Women
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 July 5, 2012
Description: Exploring the life and work of architect Frank Freeman.
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Subject: Architecture, People
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 July 18, 2012
Description: Brooklyn fashion designer to the stars El Gee (or Elgee) Bove.
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Subject: People , Clothing
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2012 November 8, 2012
Description: An overview of Emily Warren Roebling.
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Subject: People , Women, Brooklyn Bridge
Creator: C.Geld
Date: 2013 April 18, 2013
Description: The passing of Brooklyn Collection volunteer, library supporter, and Civil Rights collection donor Rioghan Kirchner.
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Subject: People
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2013 August 14, 2013
Description: Carole Landis's life and career told through Brooklyn Eagle clips.
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Subject: Entertainment, People
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2014, 2014 January 7
Description: Brooklyn urban planner Charles Downing Lay, the original designer of Marine Park, for which he won a silver medal in town planning at the 1936 Olympic Games.
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Subject: People , Urban Development
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2014 February 19, 2014
Description: Brooklyn-born baseball player Overton Tremper.
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Subject: Sports, People , Baseball
Creator: Sarah Scalet
Date: 2014 April 1, 2014
Description: Poet Hart Crane and his time in Brooklyn.
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Subject: People , Literature
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2015 April 27, 2015
Description: The story of Mary Sandsted, a reporter and editor at the Brooklyn Eagle who also managed the paper's Paris bureau during WWI.
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Subject: People , Women, Brooklyn Eagle, War
Creator: Alla Roylance
Date: 2015 December 18, 2015
Description: Guest post. Exploring the connection between the prominent Packard family of Brooklyn Heights and the poet John McCrae.
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Subject: People , Literature
Creator: Linda Granfield
Date: 2016, 2016 March 28
Description: Mrs. Betty Cohn of Brooklyn, who in 1951 became the first grandmother to swim the English Channel.
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Subject: Sports, Women, People
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2017, 2017 January 31
Description: A Black History month post about Ms. Hattie Carthan, a community leader and environmentalist in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: People , Women, Neighborhood history, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Black history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2017 February 8, 2017
Description: Protest and activist materials in the collection of Ina Clausen, who co-founded the Greenpoint Print Shop.
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Subject: Women, People , Politics
Creator: Deenah Shutzer
Date: 2017 February 27, 2017
Description: The story of Sally Maria Diggs, aka "Pinky," an enslaved girl "sold" in a mock auction at Plymouth Church to raise money for abolition during the Civil War.
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Subject: Beecher, Henry Ward, Women, People , Black history, War
Creator: Natiba Guy-Clement
Date: 2017 March 28, 2017
Description: Spiritualism and ghosts in 19th century Brooklyn, including a seance at which the ghost of Henry Ward Beecher is said to have appeared to Dr. Isaac K. Funk.
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Subject: Beecher, Henry Ward, People
Creator: Alla Roylance
Date: 2017 October 26, 2017
Description: A National Poetry Month tribute to Brooklyn poets Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and Paule Marshall.
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Subject: People , Whitman, Walt, Literature
Creator: Natiba Guy-Clement
Date: 2018 April 4, 2018
Description: A look at the life of Brooklyn resident and Jamaican immigrant Martha Gayle, written in collaboration with Demar Ludford, a Library Science student intern from the University of the West Indies, who spent his summer internship at the Brooklyn Collection processing the material. The post includes a Q&A with Demar about his experience.
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Subject: People , Projects, Immigration, Library staff
Creator: Demar Ludford, Natiba Guy-Clement
Date: 2018 August 2, 2018
Description: The story of Tsuneko Tokuyasu, a Japanese-American woman who got her law degree at Brooklyn Law School in the 1950s.
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Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2018 October 30, 2018
Description: The science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's roots in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Literature, People
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2019, 2019 December 27
Description: A collaboration between archivist Diana Bowers-Smith and historian Dylan Yeats diving into the Montauk Club collection to tease out unexpected stories of Brooklyn history, including those of T. McCants Stewart, Agnes Prendergast, and James Donovan.
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Subject: People , Politics, Women, Race, Black history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith, Dylan Yeats
Date: 2020 October 5, 2020
Description: Family history, memory, and tradition abound in the work of Larry Racioppo, including this evocative and joyful image of a family New Year's Day toast.
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Subject: Holidays, People , Photography, Photo of the Week
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021, 2021 January 5
Description: The family history of Fred Richardson, owner of the African American Bookstore in Crown Heights.
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Subject: Black history, People , Crown Heights, Immigration, Women
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021, 2021 February 4
Description: The first Black elected official from Brooklyn, Bertram L. Baker made his debut in the New York State Assembly in November 1948, where he would serve for the next twenty-two years.
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Subject: Black history, People , Politics, Photo of the Week
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021, 2021 February 6
Description: From his roots as a librarian here at Brooklyn Public Library, to his ascent to the New York State Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, Major Owens' legacy is defined by his work as a tireless antipoverty reformer and as an advocate for education, civil rights, Americans with disabilities, workers' rights, and immigrants.
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Subject: People , Library staff, Black history, Politics
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021 May 4, 2021
Description: When the Scientific American offered a $2500 prize to anyone who could produce a visible psychic manifestation, Chicago medium Elizabeth Allen Tomson answered the call.
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Subject: People , Women
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021, 2021 May 28
Description: Stephan Bibrowski (1890–1932), also known as "Lionel the Lion-Faced Man," was born outside Warsaw, Poland with a rare condition called hypertrichosis. In 1920 he moved to New York City where he became a popular attraction at the Coney Island Dreamland Circus.
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Subject: People , Photo of the Week, Coney Island
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021, 2021 June 3
Description: This is a rendering of Steve Brodie a resident of Manhattan and former newsboy who claimed to have jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge and lived. The bridge, then called the East River Bridge had just recently been completed in 1883 and on July 23, 1886, Brodie took the plunge. Or did he?
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Subject: People , Brooklyn Bridge, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021, 2021 July 19
Description: Reconstructing the life of a young dentist and poet from Syria who lived in Brooklyn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Subject: People , Immigration
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021, 2021 September 1
Description: The first set of photographs originating from the former Brooklyn Historical Society to be featured in the Center for Brooklyn History digital portal is the Ramus family collection.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, People , Photography
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 September 17, 2021
Description: This week’s image depicts a local soap fat collector. Taken by amateur photographer George Bradford Brainerd in the 1870s, we see a man carrying a large tin pail on his back.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, People , Industry
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021, 2021 September 20
Description: Brooklyn poet Marianne Moore was born on this day in 1887. For a birthday tribute, today's Photo of the Week is this striking portrait of her from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle photo morgue.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Literature, People
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 November 15, 2021
Description: The "great big bookshop with a lot of stuff in it," Civic Center Book Shop was a niche but quite popular independent bookstore in Brooklyn Heights.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Neighborhood history, Brooklyn Heights, People
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 January 28, 2022
Description: Happy Black History Month, Brooklyn fans! Today we're going to spend time with the American pianist, lyricist, and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music, Eubie Blake.
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Subject: Black history, People , Arts, Entertainment
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022, 2022 February 1
Description: For today's Photo of the Week, we have this Brooklyn Eagle photograph of a spring-themed stained glass window.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Arts, People
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 February 28, 2022
Description: A researcher wrote to me a few months back, seeking to fact check a piece of romantic Civil War hearsay. He had heard of a promise made on the battlefield between two soldiers of Brooklyn’s 14th Regiment at the second battle of Bull Run in August, 1862. Quartermaster Sargeant Alexander Barnie Jr. was said to have vowed to the mortally wounded Lieutenant Josiah M. Grumman to marry and care for Grumman’s wife, Helen L. van Duyne Grumman. The possible key to tracing this story: a slim diary kept by Grumman from 1861 to 1862, now residing in the archives at the Center for Brooklyn History. Pursuing this question lead me through CBH’s archive, digital collections, and map collections, and gave a sense of the two men and their lives before, during, and after the war.
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Subject: War, People
Creator: Kevina Tidwell
Date: 2023 September 5, 2023
Description: February is both the month of Black history and the month of love, so what better time to discuss one of Brooklyn’s most beloved historical figures, Joan Maynard!
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Subject: Black history, People
Creator: Dominique Jean-Louis
Date: 2024 February 15, 2024
Description: For this month's blog post we thought we might take a peek into the collection, looking at the Thall and Lopez family papers and photographs. The collection consists of documents, ephemera, and photographs related to several generations of the Thall and Lopez families of Canarsie, Brooklyn.
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Subject: People , Genealogy
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2024 March 1, 2024
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