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Description: Prospect Park's Litchfield Villa and its apparent haunting.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Prospect Park
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 October 7, 2021
Description: Taken around 1880, the image shows a number of dolls standing and sitting in the room, looking disturbingly as if they had just been caught mid-action.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Children
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 September 19, 2022
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week comes from the collection of Laura Fitzpatrick, who began taking pictures at age 11 of her friends, family and neighbors in Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, during the years 1938-1948.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography, Black history
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 February 23, 2023
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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 May 30, 2023
Description: In honor of back-to-school, a brief history of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Industry, Greenpoint
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021, 2021 September 13
Description: A brief history of the construction of Brooklyn's Central Library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Library history, Neighborhood history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 May 21, 2021
Description: A New Year's post in honor of BPL's 125th anniversary.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 December 27, 2021
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
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 May 10, 2021
Description: Today's photo of the week takes us to the corner of Sands and Navy Streets in Vinegar Hill, a section of Downtown Brooklyn adjacent to the Navy Yard.
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Subject: Neighborhood history, Vinegar Hill, LGBTQ history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 May 18, 2021
Description: It's difficult to picture from where we're standing, but until the 1920s, significant portions of southern Brooklyn were still farmland.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Urban Development
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021, 2021 October 25
Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to Ebbets Field where we see a crowd of fans who were unable to get into the final game of the Yankees-Dodgers 1952 World Series.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Baseball, Sports
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 November 27, 2023
Description: This week's POTW depicts a horse-drawn wagon from the American Ice Company delivering ice to the Emmanual House in Brooklyn, a local civic center run by the Young Men's League of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. During the early 1900s, the American Ice Company was the largest supplier of natural ice to New York City.
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Subject: Industry, Photo of the Week
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021 August 2, 2021
Description: The Brooklyn Bridge is arguably one of the most--if not the most--iconic symbols of Brooklyn. It has been depicted in art, like Hungarian-born American artist Miklos Suba’s version above, and replicated the world over.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Arts, Brooklyn Bridge
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 February 14, 2022
Description: Today's photo of the week comes from the recently processed Kasper Family Collection. The Kasper family lived at the Manhattan Beach Veterans Housing Project in South Brooklyn in the late 1940s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Animals, War, Neighborhood history, Manhattan Beach
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 August 16, 2021
Description: The photo of the week here depicts a person reading on the boardwalk in Coney Island in the 1980s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography, Goldfarb, Anders, Coney Island
Creator: Anna Schwartz, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 July 18, 2022
Description: On April 1, 1949, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle was full of news of workers on strike, including taxi drivers, radio operators, and brewery workers.
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Subject: Industry, Photo of the Week , Alcohol, Brooklyn Eagle
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021 September 7, 2021
Description: In April 2007, a devastating Nor'easter barreled up the East Coast of the United States, bringing with it high winds and record-breaking rainfall. In the Brooklyn neighborhood of Gowanus, the destructive Nor’easter caused the Gowanus Canal to overflow.
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Subject: Weather, Gowanus, Neighborhood history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Aimee Lusty
Date: 2022 April 25, 2022
Description: Today, former Brooklyn Collection materials, staff, and all the rest officially moved to our new home at the Brooklyn Historical Society building on Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. As our own exhibits at Central Library also become a thing of the past, let's appreciate this view of the Flatbush Avenue side of Central Library, where the Atoms for Peace exhibit trailer was parked in the 1950s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history, Politics
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2022 January 24, 2022
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
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 November 1, 2022
Description: The Dar-ul-Islam, known as "the Dar," was one of the most significant grassroots movements established by African-American Sunni Muslims in the United States.
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Subject: Bedford-stuyvesant, Religion, Black history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Maggie Schreiner
Date: 2021, 2021 February 12
Description: Today's Photo of the Week looks at the tandem bicycle, an intimate vehicle that requires teamwork.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2024 February 13, 2024
Description: Tracking down the exact location and date of an archival photograph.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 November 3, 2021
Description: For this Photo of the Week we have a captivating portrait of the Adelphi College senior basketball team from their 1910 yearbook.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Sports, School history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 April 18, 2022
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week shows the interior of the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT), a sprawling complex spanning 95 acres on the Sunset Park waterfront.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Industry
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 June 12, 2023
Description: In 1892, the Brooklyn Fire Department opened its headquarters at 365-67 Jay Street, located between Myrtle Avenue and Willoughby Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights.
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Subject: Architecture, Photo of the Week
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 June 26, 2023
Description: This photo of the week, taken in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1935, makes the flowers look like they are glowing.
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Subject: Nature, Photo of the Week , Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 March 23, 2023
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
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 December 5, 2022
Description: Today's Photo of the Week is a cyanotype created by New York City photographer Julius Wilcox. This photo is an interior view of the Central Presbyterian Church, also known as the Tabernacle on Marcy and Jefferson Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, photographed in 1892.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography, Wilcox, Julius, Churches, Bedford-stuyvesant
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021 April 9, 2021
Description: With a nod to that event, this week’s Photo of the Week takes us back to June 1935, when Brooklyn’s four-legged friends marched along Eastern Parkway competing in their own dog show of sorts: the Brooklyn Dog and Horse Parade, sponsored by the Brooklyn office of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Subject: Animals, Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 November 23, 2021
Description: The first Black elected official from Brooklyn, Bertram L. Baker made his debut in the New York State Assembly in November 1948, where he would serve for the next twenty-two years.
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Subject: Black history, People, Politics, Photo of the Week
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021, 2021 February 6
Description: As a summer heat wave kicks off the last few days of Pride Month, our Photo of the Week takes us to an elegant indoor pool at the Hotel St. George in Brooklyn Heights.
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Subject: LGBTQ history, Architecture, Photo of the Week
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 June 28, 2021
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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 January 30, 2023
Description: Visitors to the Center for Brooklyn History on Pierrepont Street sometimes ask if the building served another purpose before it was a historical society. The answer is—it was always a historical society! Built in 1881, the Queen Anne-style building was designed by architect George Browne Post.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Library history
Creator: Deborah Tint, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 February 15, 2022
Description: The photograph above documents sidewalk conditions in 1915 in advance of subway construction, but also provides evidence of an impressive hotel and cafe that once stood at the southeast corner of Willoughby and Pearl Streets in downtown Brooklyn.
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Subject: Photographs, Photo of the Week , Urban Development
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 July 5, 2021
Description: It finally feels like fall in New York and Brooklynites are starting to bundle up. This photo of the week takes us to the sidewalks of 1950s New York where little Cataldo Piccione poses for the camera in his one-piece winter suit.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Children, Clothing
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 November 21, 2022
Description: Happy Black History Month! Today we’re celebrating Dodgers pitcher Don “Big Newk” Newcombe.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Black history, Baseball, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 February 13, 2023
Description: The "great big bookshop with a lot of stuff in it," Civic Center Book Shop was a niche but quite popular independent bookstore in Brooklyn Heights.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Neighborhood history, Brooklyn Heights, People
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 January 28, 2022
Description: In the early 1990s, residents of Greenpoint and Williamsburg were fed up with the city neglecting their neighborhoods. A number of grassroots community organizations sprang up in response to various issues, including development, community board planning processes, and excessive litter. One such organization was Neighbors Against Garbage (N.A.G.), founded in 1994 in a local church basement.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Neighborhood history, Industry
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 March 5, 2021
Description: Photographer George Cohen captured the scene in 1987 at the Shorefront YM-YWHA (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association), a Jewish Community Center on Coney Island Avenue in Brighton Beach.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Brighton Beach, Jewish history, Health
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2022 January 3, 2022
Description: Is this modern art or Cumberland Street Hopital's 500-pound, $280 electric magnet? This Photo of the Week, originally published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in April 1924, shows a demonstration of the magnet's considerable power.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Health, Industry
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 July 24, 2023
Description: In the late 1970s, Brooklyn, NY-based photographer Irving I. Herzberg traveled to Kamloops, where he took the above photograph of diners at the Dome Motor Inn restaurant.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Herzberg, Irving
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 December 8, 2022
Description: 4 year old Kimberly McEwen dressed to flip the switch at the Brooklyn Heights Garden Club annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
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Subject: Children, Photo of the Week , Holidays, Clothing
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021, 2021 October 4
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week looks at a classroom in the early years of the Pratt Institute. The school was founded by businessman and philanthropist Charles Pratt, who envisioned a school for working-class people to get hands-on experience in industrial trades, arts, and engineering.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , School History
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 March 25, 2022
Description: Photographs of the Kismet Temple, now a Baptist church, in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Architecture, Neighborhood history, Bedford-stuyvesant
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 December 20, 2021
Description: In 2015, BHS received a generous grant from Gerry Charitable Trust to digitize and catalog seven scrapbooks from the Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks collection. Armbruster was an amateur photographer and NYC historian during the early 20th century.
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Subject: Photography, Photo of the Week
Creator: Deborah Tint, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 September 8, 2022
Description: In 1954, sixteen years before abortion was decriminalized in New York, four extortionists made it their business to blackmail doctors believed to be performing the then illegal procedure.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Politics, Crime, Health
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 July 4, 2022
Description: The first set of photographs originating from the former Brooklyn Historical Society to be featured in the Center for Brooklyn History digital portal is the Ramus family collection.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , People, Photography
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 September 17, 2021
Description: We see our model festooned with the extravagant jewelry, standing in front of books like Art index and Music index, a clue that she is in the reference section in the Art and Music division of the library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , War, Library staff
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 May 27, 2022
Description: In the bright sun, five Black children squat down on the ground, forming a semicircle. Irving Herzberg (b. 1915- d. 1991) took this black-and-white photograph, and it is one of several soon to be added to the growing Irving I. Herzberg photograph collection.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Animals, Children, Herzberg, Irving
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 October 13, 2022
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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 April 3, 2023
Description: In 1972, the corporation took over and renovated this stately building as part of the creation of Restoration Plaza, a community hub in the heart of Bed-Stuy.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Bedford-Stuyvesant, Architecture
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 June 6, 2022
Description: The photo of the week depicts a view of Fulton Street, including the Majestic Theater, in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1959.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Theaters, Urban Development
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2024 January 8, 2024
Description: In 2007, the former President of Positive Focus, Inc., Lorrie Palmer, donated seventeen photograph albums from their 2003 exhibition, Real Brooklyn, a day in our lives, to Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Subject: Photo of the Week
Creator: Sarah Quick, John Zarrillo, Melissa Aaronberg
Date: 2023 December 11, 2023
Description: Rubin Jacobs opened Ruby’s in 1975 and it has since become a mainstay as the headquarters for both the Mermaid Parade and the Polar Bear Club.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island, Neighborhood history
Creator: Ally Malinenko, Julie May
Date: 2023 November 13, 2023
Description: It could still be a lazy summer day or have the first whiff of cooler weather. Nevertheless, let me be sure to point out that this is the corner of Cortelyou Road and Flatbush Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Flatbush, Neighborhood history
Creator: Kevina Tidwell, Julie May
Date: 2023 September 25, 2023
Description: Family history, memory, and tradition abound in the work of Larry Racioppo, including this evocative and joyful image of a family New Year's Day toast.
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Subject: Holidays, People, Photography, Photo of the Week
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021, 2021 January 5
Description: We’re thrilled that Gil Hodges has finally been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Baseball, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021 December 10, 2021
Description: In August of 1951, Park Slope kids competed in P.S. 77's "beautiful doll" contest.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Children, School History
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2024, 2024 January 22
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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 October 10, 2023
Description: Brooklyn poet Marianne Moore was born on this day in 1887. For a birthday tribute, today's Photo of the Week is this striking portrait of her from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle photo morgue.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Literature, People
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 November 15, 2021
Description: Happy Black History Month! Today's Photo of the Week is from the Anthony Geathers photograph collection, which consists of about 66 images taken in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations throughout Brooklyn.
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Subject: Black history, Photography, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2024 February 5, 2024
Description: Today's photo of fireworks double exposed over a sherbet sky comes from the photographer Otto Dreschmeyer.
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Subject: Holidays, Photo of the Week , Photography
Creator: Kevina Tidwell
Date: 2023 July 3, 2023
Description: George Cohen, a Bronx-born photographer, donated a selection of his photographs of 1980s Brighton Beach to the Brooklyn Public Library in 2013. On this May Day qua International Workers' Day, I found a worker cutting a fish for sale in Brighton Beach in 1987.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Industry
Creator: Kevina Tidwell
Date: 2023 May 1, 2023
Description: Today's photo of the week comes from the Irving I. Herzberg photograph collection. Five Hasidic children stand on the front step of a Williamsburg building on Purim in 1965.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Jewish history, Herzberg, Irving, Children
Creator: Kevina Tidwell
Date: 2023 March 6, 2023
Description: Today we're looking at the imposing apartment building at 369-413 St. Marks Avenue that began life as the world’s largest hat factory. Founded by Irish immigrant Charles Knox, the Knox Hat Company began operations in lower Manhattan, selling beaver hats in a small store he opened in 1838.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Neighborhood history, Industry, Crown Heights
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021, 2021 July 23
Description: On October 10, 1885 the ground in Princeton, New Jersey shook. There was no great earthquake. It was, instead, the largest planned detonation prior to the atomic bomb. In order to clear obstacles from Hell Gate - a narrow tidal strait in the East River -- and free up ship traffic the US Army Corp of Engineers started blowing up several obstructions in the waters.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Industry, Urban Development
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 January 17, 2022
Description: Today's Photo of the Week takes us to one of the city's first housing developments for veterans and their families. These semi-cylindrical structures made of corrugated steel sheets, known as Quonset huts, were erected along the Belt Parkway in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Canarsie and Gravesend.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Housing, Architecture
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 May 23, 2022
Description: Today’s dramatic Photo of the Week documents a slick Flatbush burglary with an unusual conclusion.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Crime, Brooklyn Eagle
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 December 1, 2023
Description: It's the dog days of summer here in Brooklyn, a perfect time to head down to Coney Island and enjoy a hot dog on the boardwalk. This coat of arms honoring the 50th anniversary of the hot dog in 1939 shows a royal figure knighting a kneeling hot dog in the center.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island, Food
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 August 8, 2022
Description: In the late 19th century housing conditions for the poor in Brooklyn were crowded, unsafe, poorly ventilated, and lacked amenities. Today's Photo of the Week shows one of the first efforts in our borough to create affordable and pleasant housing for those who struggled to pay the rent.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Housing, Urban Development
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 August 4, 2021
Description: It’s been ten years since Hurricane Sandy, but it’s not soon forgotten.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Weather
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 November 7, 2022
Description: This week's photo is of Inman's Casino, which was located on the Bowery of Coney Island.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island, Entertainment
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021, 2021 August 31
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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023, 2023 July 31
Description: Brooklyn Historical Society is fortunate to have several fine art photographers represented in the photography collections, including Jacob Mann, a fine art photographer and painter based in Brooklyn. The photo of the week depicts a sunrise on Brighton Beach taken by Mann in 2009.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Photography, Brighton Beach
Creator: Ally Malinenko, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 August 15, 2022
Description: For this Photo of the Week, we are highlighting the work of Jamel Shabazz, a Brooklyn photographer who picked up his first camera at the age of fifteen.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Shabazz, Jamel, Photography, Black history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 April 27, 2022
Description: Today's Photo of the Week hopes to bring some color and heat to these dark days! This photo shows Astroland's Over the Falls in front of the Cyclone on July 16, 1968.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Coney Island
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 December 27, 2022
Description: This photo of the week shows the sanctuary interior of Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill in 1934. The building was constructed in 1855 as a Middle Reformed Protestant Dutch Church.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Jewish history, Architecture, Religion
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 January 23, 2023
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
Creator: Ally Malinenko, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022, 2022 June 10
Description: Stephan Bibrowski (1890–1932), also known as "Lionel the Lion-Faced Man," was born outside Warsaw, Poland with a rare condition called hypertrichosis. In 1920 he moved to New York City where he became a popular attraction at the Coney Island Dreamland Circus.
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Subject: People, Photo of the Week , Coney Island
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021, 2021 June 3
Description: Clarinetist F. Gerard Errante commissioned a clarinet score and video from Reynold Weidenaar as a "centennial tribute to the Brooklyn Bridge" in 1982.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Brooklyn Bridge
Creator: Kevina Tidwell
Date: 2024 January 2, 2024
Description: This photograph from circa 1932 shows an "Automatic Short Paste Drying Unit," which promised pasta-making "From Press to Package without Handling." The machine itself was manufactured by the Consolidated Macaroni Machine Corporation at 156-166 Sixth Street in Gowanus.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Food, Industry, Gowanus
Creator: Alice Griffin
Description: A child in a Luke Skywalker Halloween costume poses in the Othmer Library.
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Subject: Holidays, Children, Photo of the Week
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2023 October 30, 2023
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week features a busy corner in Brownsville, 1501 Pitkin Avenue, where the stately Loew’s Pitkin Theater took up the entirety of the block between Legion Street and Saratoga Avenue.
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Subject: Theaters, Photo of the Week , Architecture, Brownsville
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021, 2021 April 26
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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2024, 2024 January 29
Description: On Monday, June 18, 1962, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle announced the opening of a "New Borough Library": the Brooklyn Heights Branch and Business Library. The newspaper sent photographer Ben Schiff to take photos of the new library and its staff, including Janet Chien, seen in the above Photo of the Week.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history, Library staff
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 May 6, 2022
Description: This simple, braided bracelet holds a special meaning. If you look closely, you’ll see that the braid is actually made of human hair. Although not widely practiced today, collecting a lock of hair from a deceased loved one to incorporate into a piece of jewelry was quite common in the Victorian era.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Clothing
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 July 8, 2022
Description: This week is American Library Association's National Library Week, a time to celebrate library workers and outreach efforts, and promote library use and support. The bookmobile pictured above dates back to BPL's outreach efforts in the 1950s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Library history
Creator: Michell Montalbano
Date: 2021, 2021 April 5
Description: If you lived in Brooklyn in 1917, there’s a chance your macaroni was produced by a machine made in the I. Defrancisci & Son Macaroni Machines factory, located at 219 Morgan Avenue. Today’s Photo of the Week shows the factory and employees, including Joseph and Ignazio DeFrancisci.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Food, Industry
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 October 16, 2023
Description: A nursing class at Prospect Heights Hospital, complete with model skeleton.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Science, Health
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 October 21, 2022
Description: This image of a restaurant in Brighton Beach is from our small collection of photographs by Marcia Bricker.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Immigration, War, Brighton Beach, Neighborhood history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2023 January 16, 2023
Description: Today's Photo of the Week takes us to a Brooklyn institution, Sahadi's on Atlantic Avenue.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Food
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2023 May 8, 2023
Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to a scene on the Canarsie Creek in 1924 where 1-year-old, William Johnson, floats in a little toy boat next to a skiff holding an unidentified man and boy.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Children, Our Streets Our Stories
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 March 7, 2022
Description: This week’s Photo of the Week takes us to Kosciusko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the block that forms the northern boundary of Herbert Von King Park (known in the 19th century as Tompkins Park).
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Subject: Bedford-stuyvesant, Industry, Neighborhood history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 March 16, 2021
Description: The history of an Irish bar in Bay Ridge.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Neighborhood history, Bay Ridge, Immigration, Our Streets Our Stories
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2023 March 13, 2023
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week features a photogenic protest against the curtailment of postal service.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Politics, Civil Services, Animals
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 July 21, 2022
Description: Today, we are looking at the legacy of Executive Director David Kahn and how, under his leadership, the society transitioned to a new era as the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Opening the Pocket Doors, Staff, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2022 December 19, 2022
Description: This week’s photo of the week takes us on a journey into the depths of the Long Island Historical Society (LIHS) building. In the cellar, nestled opposite the crawl space and underneath the stairs, is where one would find the LIHS vault.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week , Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 July 17, 2023
Description: Today’s photo of the week shows a moment from the opening of New Neighbors: Sunset Park's Chinese Community in June 1996.
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Subject: Photo of the Week , Opening the Pocket Doors, Immigration, Neighborhood history, Sunset Park, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 January 9, 2023
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
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 February 20, 2023
Description: So where was the Long Island Historical Society for the first 18 years of its existence? The society rented several rooms in the Hamilton Building, located on the corner of Court and Joralemon Streets.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 June 19, 2023
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