Title: 1835 In An Envelope

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/10/30/1835-envelope/

Description: Daniel Haskel’s Map of the City of Brooklyn from 1835.

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Subject:   Maps

Title: A Black Church in Williamsburgh

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/04/black-church/

Description: Exploring the A.M.E. Zion Church Collection.

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Subject:   Black history,  Religion

Title: A Hen Goes to Brownsville

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/10/25/hen-goes-brownsville/

Description: Yiddish materials from the Sheet Music Collection.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: A Lump of the Old Jersey

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/25/lump-old-jersey/

Description: A piece supposedly from the Old Jersey prison ship, anchored off of Brooklyn during the Revolutionary War.

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Subject:   War

Title: A Movement Grows In Brooklyn. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Wed Dec 15 2010, 7:00 p.m.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/15/movement-grows-brooklyn/

Description: A talk with Brian Purnell describing the activities and impact of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Events,  Race,  Black history,  Civil Rights

Title: A Small Accolade, and Some Brooklyn Moustaches

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/24/small-accolade-and-some/

Description: Announcing Brooklyn Collection's honorable mention in the ArchivesNext Best Archives on the Web awards and sharing some Brooklyn mustaches of yore.

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Subject:   Library history

Title: A Tweet a Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/01/08/tweet-day/

Description: Announcing the start of the Brooklyn Collection Twitter account.

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Subject:   Library history

Title: Adieu!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/06/25/adieu/

Description: A farewell post from Brooklyn Collection manager Joy Holland.

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Subject:   Library staff

Title: An all too familiar sight

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/14/all-too-familiar-sight/

Description: A 19th century image of a storm from the Prints Collection.

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Subject:   Weather,  Prints Collection

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: Axel Hedman Part II--I think

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/01/30/axel-hedman-part-ii-i/

Description: Menu in the Ephemera Collection with a photograph of a bathhouse thought to have been designed by Axel Hedman.

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Subject:   Ephemera Collection,  Architecture

Title: Axel Hedman, Architect

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/11/28/axel-hedman-architect/

Description: Profile of the architect Axel Hedman.

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Subject:   People,  Architecture

Title: Bath houses or Axel Hedman Part III

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/02/24/bath-houses-or-axel/

Description: Historic bath houses in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Architecture

Title: Belcher Hyde 1929

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/12/19/belcher-hyde-1929/

Description: The 1929 Belcher Hyde desk atlas at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Maps

Title: Blowing our horn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/29/blowing-our-horn/

Description: A selection of photographs depicting the blowing of the shofar, a horn trumpet blown to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.

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Subject:   Religion,  Holidays

Title: Brooklyn (Non New York)

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/09/11/brooklyn-non-new-york/

Description: Other places in the world that are named Brooklyn.

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Title: Brooklyn By the Bay: Bensonhurst and Canarsie--upcoming event with Brian Merlis and Lee Rosenzweig

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/11/27/brooklyn-bay-bensonhurst/

Description: Author talk at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Events,  Neighborhood history,  Bensonhurst,  Canarsie

Title: Brooklyn City Directories Online!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/03/brooklyn-city-directories/

Description: Announcing the digitization of the Brooklyn City Directories.

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Subject:   Directories,  Projects

Title: Brooklyn Life Magazine, 1890-1931

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/08/brooklyn-life-magazine/

Description: Selections from Brooklyn Life magazine.

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Subject:   Periodicals

Title: Brooklyn Theater Fire in Wikipedia

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/01/13/brooklyn-theater-fire/

Description: Brooklyn Theater Fire

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Subject:   Prints Collection

Title: Brooklyn in Film: Gems from our 16mm Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/06/23/brooklyn-film-gems-our/

Description: Aziz Rahman, director of the Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival, will present highlights of our 16mm film collection.

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Subject:   Film,  Events

Title: Brooklyn's Congressman for half a century, Emanuel Celler

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/03/brooklyns-congressman/

Description: Selections from the Emanuel Celler collection.

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Subject:   Politics,  People

Title: Brooklyn's Vitaphone Studios

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/10/brooklyns-vitaphone/

Description: The Vitagraph and Vitaphone Studios and the entertainments they produced.

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Subject:   Industry,  Entertainment

Title: Brooklynites at the 1948 National Republican Convention

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/09/04/brooklynites-1948/

Description: Brooklynites at the 1948 Republican National Convention.

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Subject:   Politics

Title: Brooklynology Featured in New York Archives Magazine

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/04/05/brooklynology-featured/

Description: An excerpt from a magazine article about Brooklynology.

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Title: Bushwick Avenue: A Preservation Plan. Weds Oct 26 at 6:30 P.M.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/10/20/bushwick-avenue/

Description: Students from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Preservation Planning talk about their research uncovering the rich architectural history of Bushwick Avenue, and the preservation plan they produced as a result.

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Subject:   Events,  Architecture,  Bushwick,  Urban Development

Title: Cemetery of the Evergreens. A talk by John Rousmaniere

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/10/14/cemetery-evergreens-talk/

Description: An author talk with John Rousmaniere.

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Subject:   Cemeteries,  Events

Title: Chris Webber talks about James W.C. Pennington, Fugitive Slave and Black Abolitionist. Tonight!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/22/chris-webber-talks-about/

Description: A talk with Chris Webber.

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Subject:   Events,  Race,  Black history

Title: Church of the Atonement Ledger

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/03/14/church-atonement-ledger/

Description: A recent arrival on our shelves is the Ledger of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement. The ledger documents meetings of the vestry from 1887 to 1907.

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Subject:   Churches,  Religion

Title: Clara Whitehill Hunt, Superintendent of Work With Children

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/02/19/clara-whitehill-hunt/

Description: Clara Whitehill Hunt, pioneering BPL children's librarian.

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Subject:   Library history,  Children,  Library staff

Title: Clubbed to death

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/10/17/clubbed-death/

Description: The Hanover Club, a turn-of-the-century social club in Brooklyn.

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Title: Collage Workshop: Picturing Your Neighborhood

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/08/02/collage-workshop/

Description: Announcing summer collage workshops at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Events,  Arts

Title: Collier L. Duncan

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/10/21/collier-l-duncan/

Description: A memorial post for the late Collier Duncan, research assistant at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   People,  Library staff

Title: Crown Heights in History--and an Important Announcement

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/10/01/crown-heights-history-and/

Description: A talk by Wilhelmena Kelly on the history of Crown Heights and announcement of an upcoming genealogy event.

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Subject:   Events,  Neighborhood history,  Genealogy

Title: Days of Wine and Onions: Garrett & Co and Virginia Dare

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/22/days-wine-and-onions/

Description: Garrett & Co, makers of Virginia Dare wine and flavoring extracts at Brooklyn's Bush Terminal.

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Subject:   Food,  Industry

Title: Distilling in Brooklyn--Whiskey Wars and Swill Milk in the 1860s

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/01/20/distilling-brooklyn/

Description: Distilling history and the swill milk scandal.

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Subject:   Industry,  Alcohol

Title: E.E. Rutter

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/11/ee-rutter/

Description: Dispute over the name of photographer E.E. Rutter.

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Subject:   Rutter, E.E.,  Photography

Title: E.W. Bliss Co: Torpedoes and Telegraph Codes

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/06/ew-bliss-co-torpedoes-and/

Description: A 1901 catalogue of the products made by Brooklyn's E.W. Bliss Co. and a history of the company.

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Subject:   Industry

Title: Floyd, the Tippling Turtle at the Toddy Inn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/22/floyd-tippling-turtle/

Description: A turtle named Floyd who visited the same bar in Bay Ridge every spring.

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Subject:   Animals,  Bay Ridge

Title: Forgotten Brooklyn, an Illustrated Talk and Book Signing by Kevin Walsh.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/03/19/forgotten-brooklyn/

Description: Kevin Walsh, author of Forgotten New York, discusses the book.

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Subject:   Events

Title: From Records to Data: Seeing and sharing digital cultural heritage collections differently with Reco

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/17/records-data-seeing-and/

Description: A demonstration of Recollection software by Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist at the Library of Congress. Funded by Project CHART.

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Subject:   Events

Title: From the annals of Brooklyn's musical history: BAM in the early 1930s

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/15/annals-brooklyns-musical/

Description: 1930s concerts at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and some of the artists who participated.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: From the annals of Brooklyn's musical history: The Tollefsens.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/12/annals-brooklyns-musical/

Description: Carl Tollefsen, founder of the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, and his wife Augusta.

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Subject:   Entertainment,  People

Title: From the children's book shelf

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/21/childrens-book-shelf/

Description: Brooklyn-themed children's books.

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Subject:   Children

Title: Gardens of Brooklyn Part I: 1930s WPA Subsistence Gardens.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/18/gardens-brooklyn-part-i/

Description: WPA gardens in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   War,  Nature

Title: Gardens of Brooklyn Part II: Victory Gardens

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/19/gardens-brooklyn-part-ii/

Description: Victory gardens in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   War,  Nature

Title: Genealogy Group Tonight Wed May 5, 6 p.m.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/05/05/genealogy-group-tonight/

Description: Announcement of a genealogy group meeting at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Events,  Genealogy

Title: Genealogy Workshop Tonight April 7, 6 p.m.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/04/07/genealogy-workshop/

Description: Announcement of a genealogy workshop at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Events,  Genealogy

Title: Genealogy Workshop with Wilhelmena Kelly, Wednesday March 3, 6-8 p.m

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/02/genealogy-workshop/

Description: Genealogy workshop at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Genealogy,  Events

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: Happy Holidays

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/23/happy-holidays/

Description: A holiday card from the Brooklyn Collection designed by staff member June Koffi.

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Subject:   Holidays

Title: Herb and Dorothy, and Brooklyn Public Library

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/06/08/herb-and-dorothy-and/

Description: The documentary Herb and Dorothy about the art collecting Vogels.

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Subject:   Arts,  Library history

Title: Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York to present on April 27th

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/24/hispanic-genealogical/

Description: A presentation by Charlie Fourquet of the Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York.

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Subject:   Events,  Genealogy,  Race

Title: Historic Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge. An illustrated talk and book signing by John Manbeck

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/01/26/historic-photos-brooklyn/

Description: An author talk at the Brooklyn Collection by John Manbeck.

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Subject:   Events,  Bridges,  Brooklyn Bridge

Title: Historypin in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/19/historypin-brooklyn/

Description: Brooklyn Collection content on the Historypin app.

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Subject:   Projects

Title: Hit Parade, January 4, 1947

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/04/hit-parade-january-4-1947/

Description: Another excerpt from the diary of Arthur Lonto, this one listing songs in a "hit parade."

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Subject:   Lonto, Arthur

Title: How sweet it was...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/05/how-sweet-it-was/

Description: Sugar refining in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Food,  Industry

Title: Illusion and Reality at Loew's Kings

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/02/25/illusion-and-reality/

Description: The history and restoration of Loew's King's Theater in Flatbush.

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Subject:   Theaters,  Architecture

Title: In Praise of Blue

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/10/28/praise-blue/

Description: Cyanotype photography collections at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Photography,  Wilcox, Julius

Title: Jingle Bells

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/01/27/jingle-bells/

Description: Personal advertisements in the Williamsburg Gazette and a wintry print from Harper's Weekly.

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Subject:   Prints Collection,  Periodicals,  Weather

Title: John Manbeck Packs the House

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/03/12/john-manbeck-packs-house/

Description: Former Borough Historian John Manbeck gave a lively illustrated talk at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Events

Title: Julius Wilcox (1837-1924), Man of Many Parts

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/12/14/julius-wilcox-1837-1924/

Description: Exploring the life of photographer Julius Wilcox.

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Subject:   Wilcox, Julius,  Photography

Title: Julius Wilcox Cyanotypes: Exhibit in the Brooklyn Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/04/19/julius-wilcox-cyanotypes/

Description: An exhibit of the work of Julius Wilcox.

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Subject:   Wilcox, Julius,  Photography,  Exhibits

Title: Kosher for Passover

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/19/kosher-passover/

Description: A selection of Irving Herzberg's photographs of Passover celebrations in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Herzberg, Irving,  Photography

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: Librarian Conditions Vastly Improved Since 1920s

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/03/30/librarian-conditions/

Description: Notes from the 1921 annual report of Brooklyn Public Library.

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Subject:   Library history

Title: Library Layoffs May Hit Brooklynology.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/06/09/library-layoffs-may-hit/

Description: Brooklyn Collection staff under threat from budget cuts.

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Subject:   Library history,  Library staff

Title: Listen!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/04/30/listen/

Description: The Listening Project: Midwood is a collection of oral history interviews collected by documentary film maker Dempsey Rice during a residency at the Council Center for Senior Citizens in Midwood.

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Subject:   Midwood,  Oral history

Title: Little-Known Brooklyn Businesses. S. Gumpert & Co.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/22/little-known-brooklyn/

Description: S. Gumpert & Co., a food manufacturer at Bush Terminal.

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Subject:   Industry,  Food

Title: Lost children and leeches.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/05/14/lost-children-and-leeches/

Description: Interesting entries and advertisements in 19th century Brooklyn directories.

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Subject:   Directories

Title: Luna Parks Galore

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/19/luna-parks-galore/

Description: Various places around the world named Luna Park like the famous Coney Island amusement park.

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Subject:   Coney Island

Title: Make that a double...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/08/15/make-double/

Description: Brooklyn twins and triplets documented in the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Children

Title: Miss Doggett's Masterpiece

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/05/14/miss-doggetts-masterpiece/

Description: Marguerite V. Doggett's book "Long Island Printing 1791-1830" and early Brooklyn printing.

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Subject:   Industry

Title: Move over Costco

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/10/08/move-over-costco/

Description: A membership grocery club in Brooklyn in the 1940s at Boris Edelman's Gertzog dairy and grocery store in Sheepshead Bay.

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Subject:   Food

Title: Mr Lonto and Jackie Robinson

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/04/07/mr-lonto-and-jackie/

Description: An excerpt from the diary of Arthur Lonto.

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Subject:   People,  Baseball,  Lonto, Arthur,  Sports

Title: Mystery Building by Raoul Froger Doudemont

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/08/17/mystery-building-raoul/

Description: Identifying a photograph by Raoul Froger Doudemont.

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Subject:   Photography

Title: Mystery Market

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/05/06/mystery-market/

Description: Another mystery photograph to be identified.

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Subject:   Photography

Title: Nazism in 1930s Brooklyn.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/02/22/nazism-1930s-brooklyn/

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

Title: New Eagle Online tutorial narrated by resident Brit

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/20/new-eagle-online-tutorial/

Description: A video tutorial for navigating the new Eagle Online portal.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Projects

Title: New Genealogy Group Starts Weds Feb 3rd 6-8

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/01/29/new-genealogy-group/

Description: Announcing a new genealogy group at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Genealogy,  Events

Title: No Ancestry.com in Reserve Room July 25-29 due to Storycorps interviews

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/18/no-ancestrycom-reserve/

Description: Due to StoryCorps interviews the Reserve Room will be unavailable to researchers.

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Subject:   Projects

Title: Now the Drum of War. Robert Roper on Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/16/now-drum-war-robert-roper/

Description: Robert Roper, author of an acclaimed book on the Whitman brothers in the Civil War, will give a talk sponsored by the Brooklyn Collection on Wednesday April 29th at 7 p.m.

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Subject:   Events,  Whitman, Walt,  War

Title: Of Speaking Tubes and Kalsomining

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/12/29/speaking-tubes-and/

Description: Looking through the letterhead collection at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Industry

Title: On Bookplates

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/09/24/bookplates/

Description: A history of some of the bookplates used at Brooklyn Public Library.

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Subject:   Library history

Title: On moving houses, and John Thatcher.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/02/19/moving-houses-and-john/

Description: Buildings that were moved in Brooklyn, in particular the Lefferts Homestead, moved by Thatcher & Sons and documented in the Brooklyn Collection's Thatcher Collection.

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Subject:   Architecture,  Prints Collection,  People,  Urban Development

Title: Other Brooklyns--a Postscript

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/19/other-brooklyns/

Description: The Brooklyn Adopts Breuckelen Project and its founder, Marguerite Salomon.

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Title: Our Bi-Weekly Mystery Picture

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/07/our-bi-weekly-mystery/

Description: Identifying two pictures from the collection.

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Subject:   Photography

Title: Our bi-weekly quiz. Mystery picture.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/03/24/our-bi-weekly-quiz/

Description: Identify a picture from the collection to win a print of it.

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Subject:   Photography

Title: Panamanian Festival

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/08/08/panamanian-festival/

Description: A Panamanian festival in Mount Prospect Park.

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Subject:   Immigration

Title: Peacock in Bushwick: The Pope Mansion

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/08/07/peacock-bushwick-pope/

Description: The Pope family and their lavish mansion in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Architecture

Title: Photograph inventory July 13-24, 2009

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/07/10/photograph-inventory-july/

Description: Advance notice of a photograph inventory that will impact research services.

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Subject:   Library history,  Projects

Title: Photographs by Mike Stein of the Prospect Press

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/06/10/photographs-mike-stein/

Description: A talk with and exhibition of the work of Mike Stein, staff photographer of the Prospect Press.

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Subject:   Photography,  Events,  Exhibits,  Periodicals

Title: Pigtown

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/03/05/pigtown/

Description: The history of the Pigtown area of Brooklyn with maps and photographs by E.E. Rutter.

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Subject:   Photography,  Maps,  Rutter, E.E.

Title: Postscript: the Coney Island House Register

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/08/postscript-coney-island/

Description: A follow up post about the Coney Island House register.

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Subject:   Coney Island,  Literature

Title: Revisiting a Lost World: The Past, Present and Future of Brooklyn's Dutch Farms.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/05/26/revisiting-lost-world/

Description: Dr. Sean Sawyer gives a talk about Brooklyn's Dutch farms.

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Subject:   Events

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: Seen from Brooklyn, September 11, 2001. Photographs by Anders Goldfarb.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/10/seen-brooklyn-september/

Description: Photographs by Anders Goldfarb of the events of September 11, 2001.

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Subject:   Photography,  Goldfarb, Anders

Title: Serendipity in the Eagle Morgue

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/07/28/serendipity-eagle-morgue/

Description: Discoveries in the Brooklyn Eagle photo morgue.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Photography

Title: Shore Acres--inside a Shore Road Mansion

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/05/20/shore-acres-inside-shore/

Description: An album containing exterior and interior shots of a grand house on Shore Road near Fort Hamilton, called "Shore Acres."

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Subject:   Bay Ridge,  Architecture

Title: So this is Brooklyn! An illustrated talk by John Manbeck. Wed, March 11 2009, 7 p.m.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/03/03/so-brooklyn-illustrated/

Description: Brooklyn's former borough historian will give an illustrated talk on Brooklyn's history.

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Subject:   Events