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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: A Horse-Drawn Toilet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/30/horse-drawn-toilet/

Description: This Photo of the Week highlights what at first seems to be a perfectly ordinary horse-drawn carriage. However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the team of six is not drawing a carriage, but rather a toilet.

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Subject:   Animals Photo of the Week Industry Transportation

Title: Assessing an 1848 Clairvoyant's Predictions for Brooklyn's Future

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/04/03/assessing-1848/

Description: Comparing a clairvoyant's 1848 predictions for Brooklyn's future with the present day.

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Subject:   Urban Development

Title: Brooklyn's Mechanical Milkman

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/01/30/brooklyns-mechanical/

Description: The Clinton Hill Apartments became the testing site for the charmingly retro-futuristic “mechanical milkman,” which claimed to save women from “braving Winter winds” by supplying “refrigerated quart containers of milk right in their apartment lobbies” for 22 cents.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Food Science

Title: Four Horses of Fort Greene

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/04/03/four-horses-fort-greene/

Description: In this Photo of the Week, Brooklynites of two and four legs are lured to what appears to be a refreshing fountain on a warm day.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Animals

Title: Halloween Inspiration

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/10/10/halloween-inspiration

Description: Tis the season to get your Halloween costumes ready! Need inspiration? Perhaps this haunting Photo of the Week can assist.

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Subject:   Children Holidays Photo of the Week

Title: International Lifeguard Appreciation Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/07/31/international-lifeguard/

Description: Celebrate International Lifeguard Appreciation Day (July 31) with this Photo of the Week, which ran in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20th, 1951.

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Subject:   Children Photo of the Week

Title: Midwinter Remembrance

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/01/29/midwinter-remembrance

Description: As we enter midwinter, take in this snowy Photo of the Week of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park from 1926.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Weather Neighborhood history Fort Greene

Title: Risky Business: October 1878

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/10/03/risky-business-october/

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

Title: The Smallest Horse in the World

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/11/28/smallest-horse-world/

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

Title: World Wildlife Day & the Pigeon

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/12/04/world-wildlife-day-pigeon

Description: In this Photo of the Week, a Brighton Beach-goer seems to both respect and enjoy the local avifauna perched upon him.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Animals

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