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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 strange case of Widow's Mite, or the Ghosts Come Knocking

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/10/26/strange-case-widows-mite/

Description: Spiritualism and ghosts in 19th century Brooklyn, including a seance at which the ghost of Henry Ward Beecher is said to have appeared to Dr. Isaac K. Funk.

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Subject:   Beecher, Henry Ward,  People

Title: The Story of “Pinky”

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/03/28/unsung-story-%E2%80%9Cpinky%E2%80%9D/

Description: The story of Sally Maria Diggs, aka "Pinky," an enslaved girl "sold" in a mock auction at Plymouth Church to raise money for abolition during the Civil War.

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Subject:   Beecher, Henry Ward Women,  People ,  Black history War

Title: Ina Clausen & Protest in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/02/27/ina-clausen-protest/

Description: Protest and activist materials in the collection of Ina Clausen, who co-founded the Greenpoint Print Shop.

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Subject:   Women,  People ,  Politics

Title: Hattie "The Tree Lady of Brooklyn" Carthan

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/02/08/hattie-tree-lady-brooklyn/

Description: A Black History month post about Ms. Hattie Carthan, a community leader and environmentalist in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Subject:   People ,  Women Neighborhood history Bedford-Stuyvesant Black history

Title: You Gotta Believe

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/01/31/you-gotta-believe/

Description: Mrs. Betty Cohn of Brooklyn, who in 1951 became the first grandmother to swim the English Channel.

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Subject:   Sports Women,  People

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