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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: This week's photo takes us to the lost eastern end of Manhattan Beach. Coney Island stretched much further east at that time than it does today, and near that eastern end stood a dilapidated Life Saving Station.
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Subject: Manhattan Beach, Neighborhood history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021, 2021 January 12
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: The Dar-ul-Islam, known as "the Dar," was one of the most significant grassroots movements established by African-American Sunni Muslims in the United States.
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Subject: Bedford-stuyvesant, Religion, Black history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Maggie Schreiner
Date: 2021, 2021 February 12
Description: The Slave Theater (also called Slave No. 1) opened on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1984. The building, formerly a vaudeville and movie house, was owned by Judge John L. Phillips Jr., an African American Civil Court judge.
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Subject: Black history, Photo of the Week , Arts, Theaters
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021 February 22, 2021
Description: Our photo of the week features the Fulton Ferry House that once stood where Old Fulton Street met the water’s edge in Brooklyn Heights, one in a series of ferry buildings on that site.
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Subject: Architecture, Transportation, Photo of the Week
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 February 26, 2021
Description: In the early 1990s, residents of Greenpoint and Williamsburg were fed up with the city neglecting their neighborhoods. A number of grassroots community organizations sprang up in response to various issues, including development, community board planning processes, and excessive litter. One such organization was Neighbors Against Garbage (N.A.G.), founded in 1994 in a local church basement.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Neighborhood history, Industry
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 March 5, 2021
Description: This week’s Photo of the Week takes us to Kosciusko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the block that forms the northern boundary of Herbert Von King Park (known in the 19th century as Tompkins Park).
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Subject: Bedford-stuyvesant, Industry, Neighborhood history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 March 16, 2021
Description: To celebrate the announcement in the beginning of March that theaters will reopen in April, our photo of the week takes us to the corner of Graham Avenue and Debevoise Street in Williamsburg. This corner was the location of the Folly Theater which opened on the afternoon of October 14, 1901.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Williamsburg, Theaters, Entertainment, Neighborhood history
Creator: Amy Lau
Date: 2021, 2021 March 19
Description: This is a shot of fans from Game 1 of the World Series pitting the New York Yankees against Brooklyn's own beloved Dodgers. 73,365 eager fans packed Yankee Stadium that Tuesday afternoon.
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Subject: Sports, Baseball, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 March 30, 2021
Description: This week is American Library Association's National Library Week, a time to celebrate library workers and outreach efforts, and promote library use and support. The bookmobile pictured above dates back to BPL's outreach efforts in the 1950s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history
Creator: Michell Montalbano
Date: 2021, 2021 April 5
Description: Today's Photo of the Week is a cyanotype created by New York City photographer Julius Wilcox. This photo is an interior view of the Central Presbyterian Church, also known as the Tabernacle on Marcy and Jefferson Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, photographed in 1892.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography, Wilcox, Julius, Churches, Bedford-stuyvesant
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021 April 9, 2021
Description: Today’s photo of the week takes us to Park Slope, where a residence locally known as "the old tower house” once stood on the south side of 8th street between 5th and 6th avenues.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Park Slope, Architecture
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 April 19, 2021
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week features a busy corner in Brownsville, 1501 Pitkin Avenue, where the stately Loew’s Pitkin Theater took up the entirety of the block between Legion Street and Saratoga Avenue.
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Subject: Theaters, Photo of the Week , Architecture, Brownsville
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021, 2021 April 26
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: A photo of Holocaust survivor Regina (Rivka, nee Kanner) Gottlieb and her daughter Madeline, and their family's Brooklyn history.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Immigration, Jewish history, Women, Oral history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 May 10, 2021
Description: Today's photo of the week takes us to the corner of Sands and Navy Streets in Vinegar Hill, a section of Downtown Brooklyn adjacent to the Navy Yard.
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Subject: Neighborhood history, Vinegar Hill, LGBTQ history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 May 18, 2021
Description: A brief history of the construction of Brooklyn's Central Library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Library history, Neighborhood history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 May 21, 2021
Description: To close out National Bicycle Month, here's a little a celebration of bicycling in Brooklyn, from 1897 to the present.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Sports, Women
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021 May 24, 2021
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: The Kings County Elevated Railway and its main line, popularly known as the Fulton Street “L”, rattled along Fulton Street for more than half a century. Trains originally operated by steam, and later converted to electric between the late 1890s and early 1900s.
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Subject: Transportation, Photo of the Week , Urban Development
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 June 8, 2021
Description: Borough Hall, originally City Hall, is located in the heart of downtown Brooklyn and is one of the borough's oldest public buildings. It was also home to two highly contentious 900 square foot murals, whose final fate remains unknown today.
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Subject: Arts, Architecture, Photo of the Week
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021 June 14, 2021
Description: As a summer heat wave kicks off the last few days of Pride Month, our Photo of the Week takes us to an elegant indoor pool at the Hotel St. George in Brooklyn Heights.
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Subject: LGBTQ history, Architecture, Photo of the Week
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 June 28, 2021
Description: The photograph above documents sidewalk conditions in 1915 in advance of subway construction, but also provides evidence of an impressive hotel and cafe that once stood at the southeast corner of Willoughby and Pearl Streets in downtown Brooklyn.
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Subject: Photographs, Photo of the Week , Urban Development
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 July 5, 2021
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: Today we're looking at the imposing apartment building at 369-413 St. Marks Avenue that began life as the world’s largest hat factory. Founded by Irish immigrant Charles Knox, the Knox Hat Company began operations in lower Manhattan, selling beaver hats in a small store he opened in 1838.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Neighborhood history, Industry, Crown Heights
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021, 2021 July 23
Description: This week's POTW depicts a horse-drawn wagon from the American Ice Company delivering ice to the Emmanual House in Brooklyn, a local civic center run by the Young Men's League of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. During the early 1900s, the American Ice Company was the largest supplier of natural ice to New York City.
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Subject: Industry, Photo of the Week
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021 August 2, 2021
Description: In the late 19th century housing conditions for the poor in Brooklyn were crowded, unsafe, poorly ventilated, and lacked amenities. Today's Photo of the Week shows one of the first efforts in our borough to create affordable and pleasant housing for those who struggled to pay the rent.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Housing, Urban Development
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 August 4, 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: 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
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 August 23, 2021
Description: This week's photo is of Inman's Casino, which was located on the Bowery of Coney Island.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island, Entertainment
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021, 2021 August 31
Description: On April 1, 1949, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle was full of news of workers on strike, including taxi drivers, radio operators, and brewery workers.
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Subject: Industry, Photo of the Week , Alcohol, Brooklyn Eagle
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021 September 7, 2021
Description: In honor of back-to-school, a brief history of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Industry, Greenpoint
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021, 2021 September 13
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: 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
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021, 2021 October 4
Description: Prospect Park's Litchfield Villa and its apparent haunting.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Prospect Park
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 October 7, 2021
Description: Today's Photo of the Week takes us to Boerum Hill, where residents of the Kahnewake Mohawk territory near Montreal, Canada, settled in the early and mid-20th century and attended the nearby Cuyler Presbyterian Church on Pacific Street.
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Subject: Religion, Native history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021, 2021 October 12
Description: It's difficult to picture from where we're standing, but until the 1920s, significant portions of southern Brooklyn were still farmland.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Urban Development
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021, 2021 October 25
Description: Today's Photo of the Week takes us to Trommer’s Brewery at Bushwick Avenue and Conway Street. Brewery President George Trommer (right) is smashing a beer bottle to celebrate a new fleet of delivery trucks.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Alcohol
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021 November 1, 2021
Description: Tracking down the exact location and date of an archival photograph.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 November 3, 2021
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: 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: A historic photo of Prospect Park's Endale Arch compared to its 2020 restoration.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Prospect Park, Architecture
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021, 2021 November 29
Description: On the evening of December 5th, 1876, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Brooklyn Theatre, a relative newcomer to the Brooklyn's theatre scene.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Theaters, Social Welfare
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021, 2021 December 6
Description: We’re thrilled that Gil Hodges has finally been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Baseball, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021 December 10, 2021
Description: Photographs of the Kismet Temple, now a Baptist church, in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Neighborhood history, Bedford-stuyvesant
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 December 20, 2021
Description: A New Year's post in honor of BPL's 125th anniversary.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 December 27, 2021
Description: Photographer George Cohen captured the scene in 1987 at the Shorefront YM-YWHA (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association), a Jewish Community Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brighton Beach.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Brighton Beach, Jewish history, Health
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2022 January 3, 2022
Description: This photograph from circa 1932 shows an "Automatic Short Paste Drying Unit," which promised pasta-making "From Press to Package without Handling." The machine itself was manufactured by the Consolidated Macaroni Machine Corporation at 156-166 Sixth Street in Gowanus.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Food, Industry, Gowanus
Creator: Alice Griffin
Description: On October 10, 1885 the ground in Princeton, New Jersey shook. There was no great earthquake. It was, instead, the largest planned detonation prior to the atomic bomb. In order to clear obstacles from Hell Gate - a narrow tidal strait in the East River -- and free up ship traffic the US Army Corp of Engineers started blowing up several obstructions in the waters.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Industry, Urban Development
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 January 17, 2022
Description: Today, former Brooklyn Collection materials, staff, and all the rest officially moved to our new home at the Brooklyn Historical Society building on Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. As our own exhibits at Central Library also become a thing of the past, let's appreciate this view of the Flatbush Avenue side of Central Library, where the Atoms for Peace exhibit trailer was parked in the 1950s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history, Politics
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2022 January 24, 2022
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: 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: The Brooklyn Bridge is arguably one of the most--if not the most--iconic symbols of Brooklyn. It has been depicted in art, like Hungarian-born American artist Miklos Suba’s version above, and replicated the world over.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Arts, Brooklyn Bridge
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 February 14, 2022
Description: Visitors to the Center for Brooklyn History on Pierrepont Street sometimes ask if the building served another purpose before it was a historical society. The answer is—it was always a historical society! Built in 1881, the Queen Anne-style building was designed by architect George Browne Post.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Library history
Creator: Deborah Tint, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 February 15, 2022
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: 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
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 March 7, 2022
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
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022, 2022 March 14
Description: In 1983, the Cooper Square Committee called for a new plan, the details of which were published in The Cooper Square Plan: Report for Discussion, October 15, 1986, part of the Ronald Schiffman Collection on the Pratt Center for Community Development.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Urban Development, Architecture, Events
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 March 21, 2022
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week looks at a classroom in the early years of the Pratt Institute. The school was founded by businessman and philanthropist Charles Pratt, who envisioned a school for working-class people to get hands-on experience in industrial trades, arts, and engineering.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , School History
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 March 25, 2022
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
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 April 4, 2022
Description: This gangly construction was the brainchild of Rev. Dr. James Donohoe of St. Thomas Aquinas Church at 9th Street and 4th Avenue who, desiring to fund the construction of a new school to serve his parish, struck on the idea of offering outdoor picture shows on the planned school site.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Religion, Entertainment
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 April 8, 2022
Description: For this Photo of the Week we have a captivating portrait of the Adelphi College senior basketball team from their 1910 yearbook.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Sports, School history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 April 18, 2022
Description: In April 2007, a devastating Nor'easter barreled up the East Coast of the United States, bringing with it high winds and record-breaking rainfall. In the Brooklyn neighborhood of Gowanus, the destructive Nor’easter caused the Gowanus Canal to overflow.
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Subject: Weather, Gowanus, Neighborhood history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Aimee Lusty
Date: 2022 April 25, 2022
Description: For this Photo of the Week, we are highlighting the work of Jamel Shabazz, a Brooklyn photographer who picked up his first camera at the age of fifteen.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Shabazz, Jamel, Photography, Black history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 April 27, 2022
Description: On Monday, June 18, 1962, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle announced the opening of a "New Borough Library": the Brooklyn Heights Branch and Business Library. The newspaper sent photographer Ben Schiff to take photos of the new library and its staff, including Janet Chien, seen in the above Photo of the Week.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history, Library staff
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 May 6, 2022
Description: The world-famous Wonder Wheel is a Ferris wheel (also known as a pleasure wheel) designed by Romanian immigrant Charles Herman and operated by his business partner Herman Garms.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island, Entertainment
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022, 2022 May 16
Description: Today's Photo of the Week takes us to one of the city's first housing developments for veterans and their families. These semi-cylindrical structures made of corrugated steel sheets, known as Quonset huts, were erected along the Belt Parkway in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Canarsie and Gravesend.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Housing, Architecture
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 May 23, 2022
Description: We see our model festooned with the extravagant jewelry, standing in front of books like Art index and Music index, a clue that she is in the reference section in the Art and Music division of the library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , War, Library staff
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 May 27, 2022
Description: In 1972, the corporation took over and renovated this stately building as part of the creation of Restoration Plaza, a community hub in the heart of Bed-Stuy.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Bedford-Stuyvesant, Architecture
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 June 6, 2022
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
Creator: Ally Malinenko, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022, 2022 June 10
Description: Tuesday, June 14th is World Blood Donor Day, so this Photo of the Week takes us to a scene at Kings County Hospital on October 22, 1948. According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle caption, eight firefighters donated four quarts of blood "To Save Three Lives."
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Subject: Health, Photo of the Week
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 June 13, 2022
Description: In 1954, sixteen years before abortion was decriminalized in New York, four extortionists made it their business to blackmail doctors believed to be performing the then illegal procedure.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Politics, Crime, Health
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 July 4, 2022
Description: This simple, braided bracelet holds a special meaning. If you look closely, you’ll see that the braid is actually made of human hair. Although not widely practiced today, collecting a lock of hair from a deceased loved one to incorporate into a piece of jewelry was quite common in the Victorian era.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Clothing
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 July 8, 2022
Description: The photo of the week here depicts a person reading on the boardwalk in Coney Island in the 1980s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography, Goldfarb, Anders, Coney Island
Creator: Anna Schwartz, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 July 18, 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: Welcome to August! To bring us into the final weeks of summer vacation, this Photo of the Week is all about those summer vibes. A bevy of the titular "bathing beauties" is seen frolicking in the surf at Coney Island.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island, Women, Herzberg, Irving, Photography
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 August 1, 2022
Description: It's the dog days of summer here in Brooklyn, a perfect time to head down to Coney Island and enjoy a hot dog on the boardwalk. This coat of arms honoring the 50th anniversary of the hot dog in 1939 shows a royal figure knighting a kneeling hot dog in the center.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island, Food
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 August 8, 2022
Description: Brooklyn Historical Society is fortunate to have several fine art photographers represented in the photography collections, including Jacob Mann, a fine art photographer and painter based in Brooklyn. The photo of the week depicts a sunrise on Brighton Beach taken by Mann in 2009.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography, Brighton Beach
Creator: Ally Malinenko, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 August 15, 2022
Description: In 1972, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm strolled the tables lining Fulton Street, stopping to chat with vendors at the bustling outdoor festival in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. In 1972, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm strolled the tables lining Fulton Street, stopping to chat with vendors at the bustling outdoor festival in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Politics, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Photo of the Week
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022, 2022 August 19, 2022 August 19
Description: The Williamsburg Bridge was completed in 1903, making it the second of three bridges to connect Brooklyn to our neighbors in Manhattan.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Bridges, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 August 29, 2022
Description: When artist and trained architect Miklos Suba (1880-1944) immigrated to NYC in 1924, he was confronted with a starkly different cityscape compared to his native Hungary.
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Subject: Arts, Photo of the Week , Architecture
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 September 2, 2022
Description: In 2015, BHS received a generous grant from Gerry Charitable Trust to digitize and catalog seven scrapbooks from the Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks collection. Armbruster was an amateur photographer and NYC historian during the early 20th century.
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Subject: Photography, Photo of the Week
Creator: Deborah Tint, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 September 8, 2022
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
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 September 19, 2022
Description: Can you guess where this week's Photo of the Week was taken? "Referred to as 'the hole' by library personnel," this cavernous space was the sub-basement of our very own Central Library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history, Architecture
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 September 26, 2022
Description: John A. Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge was eight years into construction under the direction of his son and chief engineer, Washington A. Roebling. In 1878 risk takers could (with special permission) walk the narrow wooden footbridge that spanned the completed towers, swaying precariously over the East River.
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Subject: Bridges, Industry, Photo of the Week
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2022 October 3, 2022
Description: The Elephantine Colossus was an elephant-shaped hotel attraction located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Coney Island from 1885 through 1896.
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Subject: Coney Island, Architecture, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko, Dan Brenner
Date: 2022 October 10, 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: A nursing class at Prospect Heights Hospital, complete with model skeleton.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Science, Health
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 October 21, 2022
Description: Today's Photo of the Week rewinds to 1986, where a boy is peering into a Brighton Beach video store.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Brighton Beach, Entertainment
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 November 1, 2022
Description: It’s been ten years since Hurricane Sandy, but it’s not soon forgotten.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Weather
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 November 7, 2022
Description: The week’s photo of the week shows an unidentified man standing in front of our landmark building located at 128 Pierrepont Street.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week , Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2022 November 14, 2022
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
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 November 21, 2022
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: Todays Photo of the Week is a cover of sheet music entitled "Mid Flame and Smoke: a descriptive song of the burning of the Brooklyn Theater."
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Entertainment
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 December 5, 2022
Description: In the late 1970s, Brooklyn, NY-based photographer Irving I. Herzberg traveled to Kamloops, where he took the above photograph of diners at the Dome Motor Inn restaurant.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Herzberg, Irving
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 December 8, 2022
Description: Today, we are looking at the legacy of Executive Director David Kahn and how, under his leadership, the society transitioned to a new era as the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Opening the Pocket Doors, Staff, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2022 December 19, 2022
Description: Today's Photo of the Week hopes to bring some color and heat to these dark days! This photo shows Astroland's Over the Falls in front of the Cyclone on July 16, 1968.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 December 27, 2022
Description: The Photo of the Week features a sledding scene in Prospect Park on New Year’s Day in 1978. This photograph was taken by Donald L. Nowlan, a long-time Brooklyn resident, who grew up in Park Slope and lived at 470 3rd Street.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Prospect Park, Weather
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 January 2, 2023
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