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Description: The history of the NRA, or National Recovery Administration, a New Deal initiative.
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Subject: Labor, Politics
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 February 12
Description: A rainy visit to Ebbets Field from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Subject: Weather, Politics , Sports, Baseball
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2011 February 25, 2011
Description: The "Great Storm Sewer" built in Brooklyn in 1891 and the many who visited the engineering marvel.
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Subject: Politics
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 July 26, 2011
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: Brooklynites at the 1948 Republican National Convention.
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Subject: Politics
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 September 4, 2012
Description: On November 17 and 18, 1934, a gathering of "Friends of the New Germany" aka Nazis, drawn from all over the Eastern U.S., met in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Politics
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2013 February 22, 2013
Description: Coverage of JFK's assassination in Brooklyn's neighborhood newspapers.
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Subject: Periodicals, Politics
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2013, 2013 November 19
Description: Coverage of Bernie Sanders in the James Madison High School newspaper when he was a student there.
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Subject: School History, Politics , Periodicals
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2016 April 13, 2016
Description: The 1924 Republican convention in Cleveland, and Calvin Coolidge's support from the Red-Headed Legion.
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Subject: Politics
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2016 July 29, 2016
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: Studying political cartoons as part of the Teaching with Primary Sources series by Brooklyn Connections.
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Subject: Brooklyn Connections, Teaching with Primary Sources, Politics , Beecher, Henry Ward
Creator: Jen Hoyer
Date: 2018, 2018 June 20
Description: The story of a garbage barge stranded in New York harbor in 1987.
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Subject: Politics
Creator: Charlie Rudoy
Date: 2019 May 1, 2019
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: 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: 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 Brooklyn chapter of CORE had its own journal, Changing Tides: Journal of Brooklyn CORE, and a copy of the 1965 edition is in the Arnie Goldwag Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Collection, in the on-site archives at the Center for Brooklyn History.
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Subject: Black history, Periodicals, Politics , Race
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022, 2022 March 10
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: 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: 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: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church in Greenpoint where Brooke the cat is being blessed by a priest during a Blessing of the Animals event circa 2010. The man holding Brooke, Joseph R. Lentol, was New York State Assemblyman for Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Fort Greene from 1972 to 2020.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals, Politics , Religion
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 October 2, 2023
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