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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: 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
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