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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: Ancient Questions Posed

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/08/ancient-questions-posed/

Description: Photographs of orphanages, especially the Pride of Judea Home, in the Brooklyn Eagle morgue.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle Photography,  Social Welfare

Title: A Home for "Ladies"

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/07/22/home-ladies/

Description: The story of the Brooklyn Society for Relief of Respectable Aged and Indigent Females in Clinton Hill.

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Subject:   Women,  Social Welfare

Title: The Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/25/brooklyn-society/

Description: Excerpts from turn-of-the-century reports of The Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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Subject:   Children,  Social Welfare

Title: Arts and Skills for Veterans

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/31/arts-and-skills-veterans/

Description: Brooklyn Eagle photographs and descriptions of the activities of the Red Cross's Arts and Skills Corps of Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Arts War,  Social Welfare

Title: Card Parties and Lunching Ladies

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/06/16/card-parties-and-lunching/

Description: Women's card parties and other philanthropic initiatives as documented in the Eagle photo morgue.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle Women,  Social Welfare

Title: The Loyal Order of the Moose

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/06/17/loyal-order-moose/

Description: The Loyal Order of the Moose's history and charitable activities in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Social Welfare

Title: Leprosy on Kingston Avenue

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/08/24/leprosy-kingston-avenue/

Description: Boris Schleifer's 1930s photographs of Kingston Avenue Hospital, which specialized in infectious diseases.

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Subject:   Social Welfare

Title: Is it un-American for mothers to work?

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/24/it-un-american-mothers/

Description: The Mayor's Committee on Wartime Care of Children, which helped mothers who went to work in WWII.

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Subject:   Women War,  Social Welfare

Title: Summers of Fear

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/05/summers-fear/

Description: The effect of polio on the Brooklyn community.

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Subject:   Health,  Social Welfare ,  Children

Title: Handmade in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/26/handmade-brooklyn/

Description: Brooklyn's Industrial Home for the Blind and the goods produced there.

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Subject:   Social Welfare

Title: Toddlers in Tiaras of Yesteryear

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/12/17/toddlers-tiaras/

Description: The Queen of Tots beauty pageant at the Infants Home of Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Children,  Social Welfare

Title: Before "organic" was even a notion...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/07/09/organic-was-even-notion/

Description: The Betsy Head Farm Garden Photo Collection and a history of the garden.

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Subject:   Photography Children,  Social Welfare

Title: The Brooklyn Theatre Fire of December 1876: a community's response

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/12/06/brooklyn-theatre-fire/

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

Title: Sun and Sea Therapy for Children

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/04/04/sun-and-sea-therapy-for/

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

Title: Kindergarten Class at Fort Greene Park

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/06/10/kindergarten-class-fort/

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

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