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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: Be Kind, Rewind

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/11/01/be-kind-rewind/

Description: Today's Photo of the Week rewinds to 1986, where a boy is peering into a Brighton Beach video store.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Brighton Beach,  Entertainment

Title: Brooklyn Theater Fire: The Musical!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/12/05/brooklyn-theater-fire/

Description: Todays Photo of the Week is a cover of sheet music entitled "Mid Flame and Smoke: a descriptive song of the burning of the Brooklyn Theater."

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Entertainment

Title: Cutting a Rug: Evidence(s) of Social Dance in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/12/01/cutting-rug-evidences/

Description: I’ve been a social dancer most of my life, and the form closest to my heart is Lindy hop. I was interested to see what I could find in the archive that documented Lindy and other social dance activity in Brooklyn. I focused on partnered social dance and skirted (pun intended) the art of performance.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: Eubie Blake and the Legitimization of the Black Musical

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/02/01/eubie-blake-and/

Description: Happy Black History Month, Brooklyn fans! Today we're going to spend time with the American pianist, lyricist, and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music, Eubie Blake.

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Subject:   Black history People Arts,  Entertainment

Title: What’s Better Than a Bake Sale?

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/04/08/what%E2%80%99s-better-bake-sale/

Description: This gangly construction was the brainchild of Rev. Dr. James Donohoe of St. Thomas Aquinas Church at 9th Street and 4th Avenue who, desiring to fund the construction of a new school to serve his parish, struck on the idea of offering outdoor picture shows on the planned school site.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Religion,  Entertainment

Title: Wonder Wheel

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/05/16/wonder-wheel/

Description: The world-famous Wonder Wheel is a Ferris wheel (also known as a pleasure wheel) designed by Romanian immigrant Charles Herman and operated by his business partner Herman Garms.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week Coney Island,  Entertainment

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