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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 Decade in the Life of a Brooklyn Photographer: the Laura Fitzpatrick Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/02/23/decade-life-brooklyn/

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

Title: Anders Goldfarb Photographs of Coney Island

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/07/18/anders-goldfarb/

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

Title: Bring Your Photo ID: Filling Gaps in the Archive

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/11/03/bring-your-photo-id/

Description: Tracking down the exact location and date of an archival photograph.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Photography

Title: Brooklyn in Blue

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/04/09/brooklyn-blue/

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

Title: Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks, 1900-1939

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/09/08/eugene-l-armbruster/

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

Title: Faces of a Family in 19th Century New York: the Ramus Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/09/17/faces-family-19th-century/

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

Title: Generations of New Years

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/01/05/generations-new-years/

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

Title: Happy Black History Month

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/02/05/happy-black-history-month

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

Title: Happy Fourth of July

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/07/03/happy-fourth-july-11/

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

Title: Jacob Mann Photographs

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/08/15/jacob-mann-photographs/

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

Title: Jamel Shabazz's Portrait of Louis Reyes Rivera

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/04/27/jamel-shabazzs-portrait/

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

Title: Kindergarten Class at Fort Greene Park

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/06/10/kindergarten-class-fort/

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

Title: Remembering Summer 2020

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/07/10/remembering-summer-2020/

Description: This powerful image by photographer Ron Foster shows a group of raised fists in the air at a protest on July 4, 2020.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Photography ,  Black history

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 Evolution of Thought: Work by Lucille Fornasieri Gold

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/03/14/evolution-thought-work/

Description: This week's Photo of the Week highlights the work of Lucille Fornasieri Gold, a Brooklyn photographer.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Photography ,  Children

Title: The George Aptecker Collection

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/08/14/george-aptecker

Description: Today's Photo of the Week looks at an image from the George Aptecker collection. Aptecker was a photographer and diarist who photographed street scenes and portraits in and around New York City.

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Subject:   Photography ,  Photo of the Week

Title: When Disco Was King

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/06/05/when-disco-was-king/

Description: For this week's Photo of the Week we are rolling back the clock to 1980 and we're strapping on our skates for a cruise around the dance floor of the Empire Roller Disco on Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Sports,  Photography

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