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Description: On January 1, 1898, the city of Brooklyn officially became a borough and joined Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx to form New York City. To mark the centennial of this event, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) created an original theatrical production titled Voices of Brooklyn.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Events
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2024 March 18, 2024
Description: I take solace in the fact that rain-flooded streets are nothing new in Brooklyn, as this circa 1910 lantern slide by Ralph Irving Lloyd proves. Dr. Ralph Irving Lloyd (1875-1969) was a Brooklyn ophthalmologist and an avid amateur photographer.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Weather
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2024 March 11, 2024
Description: In this photo from the Robert E. Gerhardt, Jr. photograph collection, a young girl stares intently into the camera. She and her father are praying at the Muslim American Society in Bath Beach, 1933 Bath Avenue, in 2010.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Religion, Children
Creator: Kevina Tidwell
Date: 2024 March 4, 2024
Description: For this month's blog post we thought we might take a peek into the collection, looking at the Thall and Lopez family papers and photographs. The collection consists of documents, ephemera, and photographs related to several generations of the Thall and Lopez families of Canarsie, Brooklyn.
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Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2024 March 1, 2024
Description: This Photo of the Week shows one inventive owner’s novel idea to boost his business.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Food
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2024 February 21, 2024
Description: In the early 2000s, the Brooklyn Historical Society wanted to put together an exhibit to celebrate the reinstatement of the Miss Rheingold contest in 2003. However, the contest—seemingly updated for modern audiences—didn't seem to be nearly as popular as its original concept and ended after only a year. The exhibit too fell apart and never came to fruition.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Alcohol, Women, Exhibits
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2024 February 20, 2024
Description: February is both the month of Black history and the month of love, so what better time to discuss one of Brooklyn’s most beloved historical figures, Joan Maynard!
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Subject: Black history, People
Creator: Dominique Jean-Louis
Date: 2024 February 15, 2024
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: 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: In 2018, the New York Times published a story about an unusual Carroll Gardens brownstone for sale. 12 Second Place had been painstakingly restored during the brownstone revival movement of the 1960s and 70s, and had been owned by the same couple, Jane and Thor Rinden, ever since. Moreover, the Rindens had documented their five-year renovation process (1968-1973) in a charming and intimate scrapbook filled with photographs and memories.
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Subject: Housing, Architecture, Arts, Clothing, Carroll Gardens
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2024 February 5, 2024
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: 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: In the 1990s, the librarians at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) dedicated significant efforts to implementing measures aimed at preserving and enhancing access to the Society’s collections.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2024 January 16, 2024
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: An overview of educational programming at BHS as part of the institutional archives project.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2024 January 2, 2024
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: While we don’t have all the details behind this particular group photo of a staff party for the Brooklyn Historical Society, we know that director, David Kahn, is pictured on the far right with fellow staff members around 1990.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library staff
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 December 26, 2023
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: 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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 December 4, 2023
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: 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: Residents of the Infants Home of Brooklyn, located at 1358 56th Street attended their 1951 Thanksgiving dinner dressed as pint-sized pilgrims, ready to hunt their own turkey!
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Children, Holidays
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 November 20, 2023
Description: In 1868, when the former Long Island Historical Society (LIHS) first purchased the plot of land intended for their new, permanent home, there was a plethora of possibilities.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history, Architecture
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 November 15, 2023
Description: In 1993, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) opened a groundbreaking exhibition on HIV and AIDS in Brooklyn: AIDS/Brooklyn. This exhibition aimed to document the crisis in Brooklyn through the material culture, personal narratives, and life histories of those living with HIV/AIDS.
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Subject: Exhibits, Library history, LGBTQ history, Health
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 November 15, 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: If you've visited the Othmer Library, you might have noticed the large stained glass lunettes (arched windows) on the gallery level. These are original to the space, but did you know there used to be more stained glass features throughout the building?...an even greater mystery lies in the identity of the artist who crafted these stained glass pieces. To date, the building records have yet to reveal the artist's name, but there is a probable candidate.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history, Architecture
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 November 6, 2023
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: If you were to go up to the third floor of 128 Pierrepont and walk to the doors that read “Gina Ingoglia Weiner Gallery” and peer through the windows, you would see a room that currently holds a portion of the Center for Brooklyn History’s collections in neat rows of archival boxes. But this room was not always utilized for storage; prior to a storage room, it was used as an exhibit gallery for the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 October 23, 2023
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: 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: I became interested in the subject of Freemasonry after happening upon several pictures of African American Masons in our Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs.
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Subject: Black history, Race
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 October 10, 2023
Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church in Greenpoint where Brooke the cat is being blessed by a priest during a Blessing of the Animals event circa 2010. The man holding Brooke, Joseph R. Lentol, was New York State Assemblyman for Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Fort Greene from 1972 to 2020.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals, Politics, Religion
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 October 2, 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: Today's Photo of the Week is from the Daniel Berry Austin collection. Austin was an amateur photographer whose subjects often included farms and landscapes. This photo, of one of the buffalo's at the Prospect Park Zoo, was taken in 1902.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 September 18, 2023
Description: In celebration of the 75th anniversary of its founding, the Long Island Historical Society (LIHS) sponsored a photo contest geared toward Long Island’s students.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photography
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 September 12, 2023
Description: A researcher wrote to me a few months back, seeking to fact check a piece of romantic Civil War hearsay. He had heard of a promise made on the battlefield between two soldiers of Brooklyn’s 14th Regiment at the second battle of Bull Run in August, 1862. Quartermaster Sargeant Alexander Barnie Jr. was said to have vowed to the mortally wounded Lieutenant Josiah M. Grumman to marry and care for Grumman’s wife, Helen L. van Duyne Grumman. The possible key to tracing this story: a slim diary kept by Grumman from 1861 to 1862, now residing in the archives at the Center for Brooklyn History. Pursuing this question lead me through CBH’s archive, digital collections, and map collections, and gave a sense of the two men and their lives before, during, and after the war.
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Creator: Kevina Tidwell
Date: 2023 September 5, 2023
Description: Today's Photo of the Week shows one block of Park Place looking noticeably different than it does today.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Park Slope, Neighborhood history
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2023 September 4, 2023
Description: In spring of 1916 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle posted a challenge to the children of Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties: make a birdhouse for the birds of Long Island.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals, Children
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 August 28, 2023
Description: Part of the original design by George B. Post, the clock tower has been a part of the building since its construction between the years of 1878 and 1881. However, the clock tower was never installed with an actual mechanism for the clock and has therefore never worked.
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Subject: Library history, Opening the Pocket Doors, Architecture
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 August 21, 2023
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
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 August 14, 2023
Description: The photo of the week depicts a yard worker making a phone call in a telephone booth at the Brooklyn Navy Yard around 1965.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Industry
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 August 7, 2023
Description: Hosted by The Center for Brooklyn History at the Brooklyn Public Library, NYCHD had 330 students participate, submitting 178 projects.
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Subject: Brooklyn Connections
Creator: Sonya Ochshorn
Date: 2023 August 1, 2023
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: 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: 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: 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
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2023 July 10, 2023
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: A history of bookplates and examples from CBH's collections.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 June 29, 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: 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
Description: Photographer Larry Racioppo shares family memories.
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Subject: Photography
Creator: Larry Racioppo
Date: 2023 June 13, 2023
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: 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
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 June 5, 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: The photo of the week depicts Eddie Tepper posing with a penny-farthing bicycle in 1886.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports, Children
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 May 22, 2023
Description: Insight into and images from the life of Edna Huntington, onetime LIHS librarian.
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Subject: Library staff, Library history, Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Women
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 May 15, 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: 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: May is Jewish American Heritage Month and to celebrate I thought we could take a closer look at the Eugenie Fribourg Family Photographs and Ephemera Collection.
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Subject: Jewish history, Women
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 May 1, 2023
Description: It’s not every day you get the chance to see what lies underneath the floors of an old building. And while we don’t have any beating hearts underneath our floorboards, this photograph offers us a rare glimpse of the foundation of 128 Pierrepont Street.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 April 24, 2023
Description: Did you know that from 1961-1997 tattooing was banned in New York City? This photograph shows a family peeking into Brooklyn Blackie Tattooing in Coney Island, with the Tornado reflected in the shop window. Photographer Irving Herzberg captured this image in 1961, the same year the ban went into effect.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Herzberg, Irving
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 April 17, 2023
Description: To celebrate the return of baseball season, today's Photo of the Week is of Ralph Branca, the man who became famous for what would be called The Shot Heard Round the World.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports, Baseball
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 April 10, 2023
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: Comparing a clairvoyant's 1848 predictions for Brooklyn's future with the present day.
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Subject: Urban Development
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2023 April 3, 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: To celebrate Women's History Month, this week's photo takes us back to 1968 for a fashion show presented by the Women's Committee of the Long Island History Society (LIHS).
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Library history, Women
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 March 20, 2023
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 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: Brooklyn's Packer Collegiate Institute provided war relief and assistance to a similar school in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France after WWII.
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Subject: School history, War, Children
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 March 1, 2023
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 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: 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: Today's Photo of the Week comes from our Brooklyn Jewish History Project. This is Fritzie Abadi (Hidary) on a Syrian cooking day, testing her recipe.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Food, Jewish history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 February 6, 2023
Description: Throughout its 157-year history, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) executed over 150 exhibitions. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working to process the Exhibits and Special Projects portion of BHS’s institutional archive. To wrap up this part of the project, this blog post highlights the exhibits that stand out as significant in BHS history, particularly those that demonstrate how the society's values changed over time.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history, Exhibits
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 February 1, 2023
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: 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: 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 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: I recently reprocessed the composite collection Early Brooklyn and Long Island photographs (ARC.201). This 1900 class photo from P.S. 15 is included in the collection. Though we have many class photos, it's much more rare for us to actually be able to identify the students in the photos, and even more infrequent to have as many named as this. I decided to use some of our research tools to see if I could flesh out the lives of these promising young graduates.
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Subject: Women, Black history, School History, Children, Immigration
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2023 January 2, 2023
Description: The Photo of the Week features a sledding scene in Prospect Park on New Year’s Day in 1978. This photograph was taken by Donald L. Nowlan, a long-time Brooklyn resident, who grew up in Park Slope and lived at 470 3rd Street.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Prospect Park, Weather
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 January 2, 2023
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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 December 1, 2022
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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2022 November 28, 2022
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: The week’s photo of the week shows an unidentified man standing in front of our landmark building located at 128 Pierrepont Street.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2022 November 14, 2022
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: 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: Lady Deborah Moody, founder of Gravesend.
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Subject: Gravesend, Women, Neighborhood history
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 October 25, 2022
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: 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: The Elephantine Colossus was an elephant-shaped hotel attraction located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Coney Island from 1885 through 1896.
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Subject: Coney Island, Architecture, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko, Dan Brenner
Date: 2022 October 10, 2022
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
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2022 October 3, 2022
Description: October is LGBTQ+ History Month. In the weeks leading up to this month celebrating the history and achievements of LGBTQ+ communities, a question that is asked by researchers is: What resources do the Center for Brooklyn History have on queer people? The answer? A lot! This Brooklynology blog post will highlight several CBH LGBTQ+ history resources that can be referenced in October and all year-round.
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Subject: LGBTQ history
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 October 3, 2022
Description: Can you guess where this week's Photo of the Week was taken? "Referred to as 'the hole' by library personnel," this cavernous space was the sub-basement of our very own Central Library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Library history, Architecture
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 September 26, 2022
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: 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: When artist and trained architect Miklos Suba (1880-1944) immigrated to NYC in 1924, he was confronted with a starkly different cityscape compared to his native Hungary.
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Subject: Arts, Photo of the Week, Architecture
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 September 2, 2022
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