Title: "Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear...": Photo Retouching in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/05/15/let-me-make-perfectly/

Description: An examination of retouched photographs in the Brooklyn Eagle photo morgue and photo retouching techniques.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Photography

Title: "The Fastest and Most Thrilling Ride Ever Offered the Public": Flying Turns at Steeplechase Park

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/01/03/fastest-and-most/

Description: The beginning of the 20th century marked the rise of extravagant, mechanized amusement parks and attractions at Coney Island. Many amusement park rides from this period may sound funny, or even terrifying, to today’s thrill-seeking audiences.

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Subject:   Coney Island,  Entertainment

Title: 1835 In An Envelope

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/10/30/1835-envelope/

Description: Daniel Haskel’s Map of the City of Brooklyn from 1835.

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Subject:   Maps

Title: 20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/04/07/20-things-you-probably/

Description: 20 facts about Brooklyn drawn from its history and illustrated with Brooklyn Collection materials.

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Title: 50? That Bridge Doesn't Look A Day Over 25!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/04/17/50-bridge-doesnt-look-day/

Description: The history of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.

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Subject:   Bridges

Title: A (Maybe) Brooklyn Haunting for Spooky Season

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/10/07/maybe-brooklyn-haunting/

Description: Prospect Park's Litchfield Villa and its apparent haunting.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Architecture,  Prospect Park

Title: A (Not So) Brief History of Red Hook

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/10/not-so-brief-history-red/

Description: A look at the history of Red Hook.

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Subject:   Red Hook,  Neighborhood history

Title: A Black Church in Williamsburgh

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/04/black-church/

Description: Exploring the A.M.E. Zion Church Collection.

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Subject:   Black history,  Religion

Title: A Brief History of a Blonde Bombshell

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/01/07/brief-history-blonde/

Description: Carole Landis's life and career told through Brooklyn Eagle clips.

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Subject:   Entertainment,  People

Title: A Brooklyn Child's Christmas List, 1953

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/16/brooklyn-childs-christmas/

Description: Midcentury toys from Abraham & Straus Department Store in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Children,  Holidays

Title: A Child's Bedroom in 1880

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/09/19/childs-bedroom-1880/

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

Title: A Child’s Christmas in South Brooklyn (with apologies to Dylan Thomas)

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/12/04/child%E2%80%99s-christmas-south/

Description: Guest post. Photographer Larry Racioppo shares stories and photographs of his childhood Christmases in Brooklyn, including the Catholic traditions of his Italian-American family.

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Subject:   Photography,  Holidays,  Religion

Title: A Civil War of Our Very Own

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/08/06/civil-war-our-very-own/

Description: A history of the statue of Ulysses S. Grant at the intersection of Bedford Avenue and Dean Street.

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Subject:   War,  Arts,  Urban Development

Title: A Class Sister Act

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/22/class-sister-act/

Description: The Five DeMarco Sisters, a midcentury singing group from Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Entertainment,  Women

Title: A Conversation with Brooklyn Public Library's First Artist-in-Residence, Elizabeth Felicella -- Wedn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/10/23/conversation-brooklyn/

Description: Elizabeth Felicella will discuss her work as an architectural photographer with Brooklyn Collection archivists Ben Gocker and Ivy Marvel.

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Subject:   Arts,  Events,  Photography

Title: A Day to Give Thanks

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/18/day-give-thanks/

Description: Vintage Thanksgiving materials from the Brooklyn Collection, including recipes.

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Subject:   Holidays,  Food

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: A Digest of a Different Sort

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/08/05/digest-different-sort/

Description: Brooklyn Digest Magazine, a 1940s publication.

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Subject:   Periodicals

Title: A Freeman is Hard to Find

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/07/18/freeman-hard-find/

Description: Exploring the life and work of architect Frank Freeman.

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Subject:   Architecture,  People

Title: A Hen Goes to Brownsville

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/10/25/hen-goes-brownsville/

Description: Yiddish materials from the Sheet Music Collection.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: A Home for "Ladies"

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/07/22/home-ladies/

Description: The story of the Brooklyn Society for Relief of Respectable Aged and Indigent Females in Clinton Hill.

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Subject:   Women,  Social Welfare

Title: A Horse-Drawn Toilet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/30/horse-drawn-toilet/

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

Title: A Legacy in Lead

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/09/13/legacy-lead/

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

Title: A Library for Children -- the Stone Avenue Branch

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/05/07/library-children-stone/

Description: A history of Brooklyn Public Library's Stone Avenue branch on the occasion of its 100th year in operation.

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Subject:   Library history

Title: A Little Analysis Practice

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/01/02/little-analysis-practice/

Description: Analyzing prints with students.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections,  Prints Collection

Title: A Look Back at Brooklyn's Central Library

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05/21/look-back-brooklyns/

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

Title: A Look Back at Brooklyn's LGBTQ+ History

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/05/25/look-back-brooklyns-lgbtq/

Description: A Pride Month post on the history of Brooklyn's LGBTQ+ communities.

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Subject:   LGBTQ history

Title: A Look at the Year Ahead: Brooklyn Connections

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/08/22/look-year-ahead-brooklyn/

Description: An overview of the new year of Brooklyn Connections curriculum and programs.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: A Lump of the Old Jersey

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/25/lump-old-jersey/

Description: A piece supposedly from the Old Jersey prison ship, anchored off of Brooklyn during the Revolutionary War.

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Subject:   War

Title: A Million Possibilities

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/12/27/million-possibilities/

Description: A New Year's post in honor of BPL's 125th anniversary.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Library history

Title: A Mother's Immigration Story

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05/10/mothers-immigration-story/

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

Title: A Movement Grows In Brooklyn. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Wed Dec 15 2010, 7:00 p.m.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/15/movement-grows-brooklyn/

Description: A talk with Brian Purnell describing the activities and impact of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Events,  Race,  Black history,  Civil Rights

Title: A Night to Remember

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/04/22/night-remember/

Description: The history of school proms in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   School History

Title: A Parting Word

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/05/parting-word/

Description: The closure of the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle

Title: A Personal History of the Mermaid Parade

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/06/18/personal-history-mermaid/

Description: Guest post. Photographer Larry Racioppo shares photos and stories of the Coney Island mermaid parade.

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Subject:   Coney Island,  Photography

Title: A School for Girls and One for Boys

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/02/04/school-girls-and-one-boys/

Description: The history of Girls' High School and Boys' High School.

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Subject:   School History

Title: A Season to Forget: 1951 Scandal Mars LIU Basketball Program, by Nora Almeida

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/09/season-forget-1951/

Description: Guest post from Nora Almeida of Project CHART on a New York City college basketball gambling scandal in 1951.

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Subject:   Sports,  Crime

Title: A Short History of the Saratoga Park Playground

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2020/10/30/short-history-saratoga/

Description: A history of the Saratoga Park Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Subject:   Children,  Neighborhood history,  Urban development,  Bedford-stuyvesant

Title: A Small Accolade, and Some Brooklyn Moustaches

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/24/small-accolade-and-some/

Description: Announcing Brooklyn Collection's honorable mention in the ArchivesNext Best Archives on the Web awards and sharing some Brooklyn mustaches of yore.

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Subject:   Library history

Title: A Story of Sands Street

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/05/18/story-sands-street/

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

Title: A Tale of Two Schools: a Brooklyn-France Connection in the Aftermath of World War II

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/03/01/tale-two-schools-brooklyn/

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

Title: A Teacher Grows in Brooklyn: Sarah J. Smith Garnet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2020/07/01/teacher-grows-brooklyn/

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Subject:   Women,  Brooklyn Connections,  Black history,  School History

Title: A Tough Rowhouse to Hoe: On Agriculture and Urban Development

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/10/25/tough-rowhouse-hoe/

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

Title: A Tweet a Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/01/08/tweet-day/

Description: Announcing the start of the Brooklyn Collection Twitter account.

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Subject:   Library history

Title: A VERY QUIET FURY

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/04/01/very-quiet-fury/

Description: An April Fool's post about the made-up anarchist, vegetarian, and amateur photographer Heinrich Bollinger.

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Title: A Vanished Vista: the Changing Landscape of Prospect Park's Vale of Cashmere

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/03/23/vanished-vista-changing/

Description: The history of Prospect Park's Vale of Cashmere.

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Subject:   Prospect Park

Title: A Whale's Tale

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/10/02/whales-tale/

Description: The story of an embalmed whale exhibited worldwide, including in Coney Island in 1953, where it caught fire and was ultimately ruined.

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Subject:   Coney Island,  Animals

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: Adieu!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/06/25/adieu/

Description: A farewell post from Brooklyn Collection manager Joy Holland.

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Subject:   Library staff

Title: After Thanksgiving

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/12/02/after-thanksgiving/

Description: Thanksgiving photos from the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Food,  Holidays

Title: All Fools' Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/02/all-fools-day/

Description: Documentation of April Fool's Day's past in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Holidays

Title: All Wet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/09/13/all-wet/

Description: The Mount Prospect Reservoir next to the site of what is now Central Library.

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Subject:   Library history,  Urban Development

Title: All this for the Dodgers!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/11/27/all-for-dodgers

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

Title: America's Favorite Spokescow

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/12/americas-favorite/

Description: Elsie the Cow, the world famous mascot for Borden Milk Products.

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Subject:   Food,  Animals

Title: An Icy Summer

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/08/02/icy-summer/

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

Title: An Ode to Brooklyn Poets

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/04/04/ode-brooklyn-poets/

Description: A National Poetry Month tribute to Brooklyn poets Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and Paule Marshall.

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Subject:   People,  Whitman, Walt,  Literature

Title: An Unsightly Approach

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/02/14/unsightly-approach/

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

Title: An Unusual Ride to School

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/08/16/unusual-ride-school/

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

Title: An all too familiar sight

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/14/all-too-familiar-sight/

Description: A 19th century image of a storm from the Prints Collection.

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Subject:   Weather,  Prints Collection

Title: Ancient Questions Posed

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/08/ancient-questions-posed/

Description: Photographs of orphanages, especially the Pride of Judea Home, in the Brooklyn Eagle morgue.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Eagle,  Photography,  Social Welfare

Title: And They're Off! - Part 1

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/07/01/and-theyre-part-1/

Description: The history of horse racing in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Sports

Title: And They're Off! - Part 2

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/10/26/and-theyre-part-2/

Description: How an influx of Southern black workers to the racing industry in Brooklyn led to the creation of the First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay, thanks in large part to the efforts of Mother Maria J. Fisher.

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Subject:   Sports,  Race,  Sheepshead Bay,  Religion

Title: And the Medal Goes To...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/02/19/and-medal-goes/

Description: Brooklyn urban planner Charles Downing Lay, the original designer of Marine Park, for which he won a silver medal in town planning at the 1936 Olympic Games.

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Subject:   People,  Urban Development

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: Annals of a Brooklyn Cop

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/13/annals-brooklyn-cop/

Description: The daily log of New York City police officer Louis F. Welge.

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Subject:   People,  Civil Services

Title: Anthony Fiala: Soldier, Explorer, Artist

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/06/13/anthony-fiala-soldier/

Description: A brief biography of Bay Ridge resident Anthony Fiala.

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Subject:   People

Title: Apple Pie

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/11/24/apple-pie/

Description: Vintage apple pie recipes and information from Brooklyn sources.

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Subject:   Food,  Beecher, Henry Ward

Title: April 1, 1949: A Day in Brooklyn Labor History

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/09/07/april-1-1949-day-brooklyn/

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

Title: April Showers Bring May Flowers and Floods

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/04/25/april-showers-bring-may/

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

Title: Artist Talk-Jesus in Brooklyn: Four Good Fridays with Larry Racioppo

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/03/17/artist-talk-jesus/

Description: Artist talk with photographer Larry Racioppo on his many years photographing Good Friday celebrations in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Events,  Photography,  Religion

Title: Arts and Skills for Veterans

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/31/arts-and-skills-veterans/

Description: Brooklyn Eagle photographs and descriptions of the activities of the Red Cross's Arts and Skills Corps of Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Arts,  War,  Social Welfare

Title: Assessing an 1848 Clairvoyant's Predictions for Brooklyn's Future

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/04/03/assessing-1848/

Description: Comparing a clairvoyant's 1848 predictions for Brooklyn's future with the present day.

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Subject:   Urban Development

Title: Atoms for Peace and Goodbye, Central Library

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/01/24/atoms-for-peace-and/

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

Title: Author Talk: "Come Out Swinging: the Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym" with Lucia Trimbur

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/02/20/author-talk-come-out/

Description: An author talk with with Lucia Trimbur, author of "Come Out Swinging: the changing world of boxing in Gleason's Gym," and an exhibition opening for "Sports in Brooklyn."

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Subject:   Sports,  Events,  Exhibits

Title: Author Talk: Henrik Krogius on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Wednesday November 28th, 6:30pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/27/author-talk-henrik/

Description: Brooklyn Heights Press editor Henrik Krogius discusses his book The Brooklyn Heights Promenade.

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Subject:   Events,  Brooklyn Heights

Title: Author Talk: The History of Pizza, Wednesday, April 30th 7pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/04/29/author-talk-history-pizza/

Description: A talk on the history of pizza with Scott Wiener, author of "Viva La Pizza! The art of the pizza box."

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Subject:   Events,  Food

Title: Axel Hedman Part II--I think

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/01/30/axel-hedman-part-ii-i/

Description: Menu in the Ephemera Collection with a photograph of a bathhouse thought to have been designed by Axel Hedman.

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Subject:   Ephemera Collection,  Architecture

Title: Axel Hedman, Architect

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/11/28/axel-hedman-architect/

Description: Profile of the architect Axel Hedman.

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Subject:   People,  Architecture

Title: Babes named (in) Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/06/08/babes-named-brooklyn/

Description: Library resources for naming babies.

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Subject:   Children

Title: Back in the Days: Author Talk with photographer Jamel Shabazz, Wednesday Sept. 28, 6:30pm

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/22/back-days-author-talk/

Description: Author Talk with photographer Jamel Shabazz.

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Subject:   Events,  Photography,  Shabazz, Jamel

Title: Back to School

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/09/19/back-school/

Description: Contemporary and historic back-to-school fashions in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Clothing

Title: Badges of Honor

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/01/20/badges-honor/

Description: An exhibit of badges on loan from collector Art Sinai, paired with related materials from the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Exhibits,  Civil Services

Title: Baseball Fanatics Beware

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/03/23/baseball-fanatics-beware/

Description: A look at a 1954 pamphlet, "A Health and Safety Manual for the 1954 Baseball Season."

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Subject:   Baseball,  Ephemera Collection,  Sports

Title: Baseball in Brooklyn: Author talk with Andrew Mele

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/24/baseball-brooklyn-author/

Description: Author talk with Andrew Mele, author of The Boys of Brooklyn: The Parade Grounds-Brooklyn's Field of Dreams, and The Brooklyn Dodgers Reader .

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Subject:   Sports,  Baseball,  Events

Title: Bath houses or Axel Hedman Part III

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/02/24/bath-houses-or-axel/

Description: Historic bath houses in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Architecture

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: Beat the Heat! Visit the Brooklyn Collection's New Exhibit!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/07/26/beat-heat-visit-brooklyn/

Description: An exhibit of student work from the Brooklyn Connections program.

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Subject:   Exhibits,  Brooklyn Connections

Title: Beauty and the Beer

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/07/16/beauty-and-beer/

Description: Beer advertisements from Brooklyn breweries and the Miss Rheingold competition.

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Subject:   Industry,  Alcohol

Title: Bedford-Stuyvesant's Dar-ul-Islam Movement

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/02/12/bedford-stuyvesants-dar/

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

Title: Before "BROOKLYN BEFORE"

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/12/10/brooklyn/

Description: Guest post. Photographer Larry Racioppo reflects on his early career, his work, and his inspirations in conjunction with the release of his book "Brooklyn Before" and his exhibition at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Photography,  Exhibits

Title: Before "organic" was even a notion...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/07/09/organic-was-even-notion/

Description: The Betsy Head Farm Garden Photo Collection and a history of the garden.

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Subject:   Photography,  Children,  Social Welfare

Title: Belcher Hyde 1929

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/12/19/belcher-hyde-1929/

Description: The 1929 Belcher Hyde desk atlas at the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   Maps

Title: Beyond Weeksville: An Evening with Genealogist and Author Wilhelmina Kelly, Weds. February 29th, 6:

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/22/beyond-weeksville-evening/

Description: An evening with genealogist and author Wilhelmina Kelly, who will explore the early history of Black Brooklyn through its burial grounds, organizations, and neighborhoods.

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Subject:   Genealogy,  Events,  Black history

Title: Big Appetites, Little Pizzas

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/03/big-appetites-little/

Description: One of the first frozen pizza manufacturers, the Petite Foods Corporation, and their mini pizzas, made in Brooklyn and documented by the Brooklyn Eagle.

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Subject:   Food

Title: Biking with a Friend

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/02/13/biking-friend

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

Title: Birds of Prospect Park

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/04/15/birds-prospect-park/

Description: Birds of Prospect Park, published in 1951 by the Brooklyn Bird Club.

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Subject:   Animals,  Prospect Park

Title: Black Masons in Brooklyn: an Indomitable Brotherhood

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/10/10/black-masons-brooklyn

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

Title: Black News

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/14/black-news/

Description: Overview of the publication Black News, which was published from 1969 to 1984 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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Subject:   Race,  Periodicals,  Bedford-stuyvesant,  Black history,  Civil Rights

Title: Blowing our horn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/29/blowing-our-horn/

Description: A selection of photographs depicting the blowing of the shofar, a horn trumpet blown to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.

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Subject:   Religion,  Holidays

Title: Bookplates: Explanation and Inspiration

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/06/29/bookplates-explanation/

Description: A history of bookplates and examples from CBH's collections.

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Subject:   Library history