Title: Types of Brooklyn Girls

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/29/types-brooklyn-girls/

Description: A 1902 series in the Brooklyn Eagle on types of Brooklyn girls.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Women

Title: Happy Mother's Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/05/11/happy-mothers-day/

Description: Photographs of mothers by irving Herzberg.

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Subject:   Women ,  Herzberg, Irving,  Holidays

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: So What'll It Be?

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/11/04/so-whatll-it-be/

Description: The history of women bartenders in midcentury Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Women ,  Alcohol

Title: Making life easier for the Brooklyn housewife (and househusband)

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/11/24/making-life-easier/

Description: Domestic life in midcentury Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Women ,  Food

Title: The Nurse is Here to Help

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/01/03/nurse-here-help/

Description: The history of maternity care in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Women

Title: Sentimental Journey

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/02/04/sentimental-journey/

Description: "War brides" arriving in Brooklyn after WWII.

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Subject:   Women ,  War

Title: Don't Know Why There's No Sun Up In The Sky

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/05/11/dont-know-why-theres-no/

Description: In memory of the recently deceased Brooklynite and famous performer Lena Horne.

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Subject:   Entertainment,  Black history,  Women

Title: Little-Known Brooklyn Residents: Dr. Ida Mellen

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/06/08/little-known-brooklyn/

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

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 National League of Women's Services, 1918

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/07/29/national-league-womens/

Description: A collection of photographs of activities of the National League of Women's Services at Fort Totten.

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Subject:   Women ,  War

Title: Brooklyn Weddings

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/13/brooklyn-weddings/

Description: Different sources on historic Brooklyn weddings.

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Subject:   Clothing,  Religion,  Women

Title: Of Hair Pins and Independents: Brooklyn's Lady Bowlers

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/16/hair-pins-and/

Description: The history of women's bowling in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Women ,  Sports

Title: A Class Sister Act

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/22/class-sister-act/

Description: The Five DeMarco Sisters, a midcentury singing group from Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Entertainment,  Women

Title: Gentrifiers and Nannies: two new books, two upcoming author talks

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/21/gentrifiers-and-nannies/

Description: Author talks on Suleiman Osman's The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York and Tamara Mose Brown's Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare and Caribbeans Creating Community.

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Subject:   Events,  Children,  Urban Development,  Women ,  Immigration

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: Raising Brooklyn: An Illustrated Talk by Tamara Mose Brown, Wednesday May 25th, 7pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/24/raising-brooklyn/

Description: Tamara Mose Brown discusses her new book Raising Brooklyn which offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of women of Caribbean descent who provide childcare.

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Subject:   Events,  Children,  Women ,  Immigration

Title: Susan B. Anthony to Laura C. Holloway

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/15/susan-b-anthony-laura-c/

Description: Laura C. Holloway's letters at the Brooklyn Collection, including correspondence with Susan B. Anthony.

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Subject:   Women ,  People

Title: She's Mad Real: Author Talk with Oneka LaBennett Wednesday, March 28th, 6:30pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/26/shes-mad-real-author-talk/

Description: An author talk with Oneka LaBennett on her book She's Mad Real.

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Subject:   Events,  Women ,  Flatbush,  Crown Heights

Title: Hair

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/27/hair/

Description: Different women's hairstyles in Brooklyn history, particularly the bob.

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Subject:   Women

Title: The Laura C. Holloway Letters

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/07/05/laura-c-holloway-letters/

Description: Announcing a full finding aid for the Laura C. Holloway Letters.

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Subject:   People,  Women

Title: Secret and long suppressed records of the Froebel Society.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/04/01/secret-and-long/

Description: Records of the Froebel Society, an organization for women interested in progressive education.

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Subject:   Women

Title: Emily Warren Roebling in the Press

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/04/18/emily-warren-roebling/

Description: An overview of Emily Warren Roebling.

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Subject:   People,  Women ,  Brooklyn Bridge

Title: Mary Sandsted, a "typically American girl"

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/12/18/mary-sandsted-typically/

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

Title: You Gotta Believe

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/01/31/you-gotta-believe/

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

Title: Hattie "The Tree Lady of Brooklyn" Carthan

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/02/08/hattie-tree-lady-brooklyn/

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

Title: Ina Clausen & Protest in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/02/27/ina-clausen-protest/

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

Title: The Story of “Pinky”

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/03/28/unsung-story-%E2%80%9Cpinky%E2%80%9D/

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

Title: Susan Smith McKinney Steward: Brooklyn's First Black Woman Physician

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/01/25/susan-smith-mckinney/

Description: A Black History Month post on Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the third black physician in the United States.

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Subject:   Women ,  Black history

Title: Seeking Tsuneko Tokuyasu

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/10/30/seeking-tsuneko-tokuyasu/

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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Subject:   People,  Women ,  Race

Title: The Fierce Women Skaters of Roller Derby's Heyday in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/01/28/fierce-women-skaters/

Description: In conjunction with the Brooklyn Collection exhibit "Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco," a look at the woman skaters of roller derby's midcentury heyday in Brooklyn, including Midge "Toughie" Brasuhn.

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Subject:   Women ,  Sports,  Exhibits

Title: Forgotten History: Remembering Dr. Mary M Crawford and her Contributions to Brooklyn's History

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/03/05/forgotten-history/

Description: Dr. Mary M. Crawford, who served as the only female doctor in the American Hospital in Paris during World War I and was also the first female ambulance surgeon in Brooklyn. She later became chief surgeon of the Williamsburg hospital.

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Subject:   Women ,  War

Title: Teaching with Primary Sources: Women’s History Month

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/03/14/teaching-primary-sources/

Description: Exploring the Brooklyn Connections Brooklyn Botanic Garden primary source packet, including many contributions by women to the garden's history. Part of the Teaching with Primary Sources series.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections,  Teaching with Primary Sources,  Women ,  Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Title: My Mother's Sisters

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2020/05/22/my-mothers-sisters/

Description: Guest post. Photographer Larry Racioppo writes about his mother, his aunts, and his large Italian-American family and shares photographs of them through the years.

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Subject:   Women ,  Photography

Title: A Teacher Grows in Brooklyn: Sarah J. Smith Garnet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2020/07/01/teacher-grows-brooklyn/

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Subject:   Women ,  Brooklyn Connections,  Black history,  School History

Title: Reading Against the Grain in the Montauk Club Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2020/10/05/reading-against-grain/

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

Title: Community and Activism in one Brooklyn Family's Roots

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/02/04/community-and-activism/

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

Title: A Mother's Immigration Story

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05/10/mothers-immigration-story/

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

Title: Wheeling in the Years: A Slice of Brooklyn Bicycle History

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05/24/wheeling-years-slice/

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

Title: Taking a Bite Out of Spiritualism

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05/28/taking-bite-out/

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

Title: Summer Vibes

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/08/01/summer-vibes/

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

Title: The Lady of Gravesend

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/10/25/lady-gravesend-0/

Description: Lady Deborah Moody, founder of Gravesend.

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Subject:   Gravesend,  Women ,  Neighborhood history

Title: Stories a Photo Can Tell

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/01/02/stories-photo-can-tell/

Description: I recently reprocessed the composite collection Early Brooklyn and Long Island photographs (ARC.201). This 1900 class photo from P.S. 15 is included in the collection. Though we have many class photos, it's much more rare for us to actually be able to identify the students in the photos, and even more infrequent to have as many named as this. I decided to use some of our research tools to see if I could flesh out the lives of these promising young graduates.

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Subject:   Women ,  Black history,  School History,  Children,  Immigration

Title: Opening the Pocket Doors: Celebrating Presidents' Day with President Susan Mullin

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/02/20/opening-pocket-doors/

Description: This week, we are sharing an image of former Brooklyn Historical Society President, Susan Mullin, who both enacted and embodied change within the Historical Society.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Opening the Pocket Doors,  Women ,  Staff,  Library history

Title: Opening the Pocket Doors: The Women’s Committee of the Long Island Historical Society

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/03/20/opening-pocket-doors/

Description: To celebrate Women's History Month, this week's photo takes us back to 1968 for a fashion show presented by the Women's Committee of the Long Island History Society (LIHS).

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Subject:   Opening the Pocket Doors,  Photo of the Week,  Library history,  Women

Title: Eugenie Fribourg: Nearly 99 Years in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/01/eugenie-fribourg-nearly/

Description: May is Jewish American Heritage Month and to celebrate I thought we could take a closer look at the Eugenie Fribourg Family Photographs and Ephemera Collection.

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Subject:   Jewish history,  Women

Title: Opening the Pocket Doors: The Trails and Trials of Miss Edna Huntington

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/15/opening-pocket-doors/

Description: Insight into and images from the life of Edna Huntington, onetime LIHS librarian.

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Subject:   Library staff,  Library history,  Opening the Pocket Doors,  Photo of the Week,  Women

Title: Opening the Pocket Doors: Beauty and the Beer (An Exhibit That Never Was)

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/02/20/opening-pocket-doors

Description: In the early 2000s, the Brooklyn Historical Society wanted to put together an exhibit to celebrate the reinstatement of the Miss Rheingold contest in 2003. However, the contest—seemingly updated for modern audiences—didn't seem to be nearly as popular as its original concept and ended after only a year. The exhibit too fell apart and never came to fruition.

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Subject:   Opening the Pocket Doors,  Alcohol,  Women ,  Exhibits