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Description: A puzzle column in the Eagle and the story of Upton Sinclair's contribution to it.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, People
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 April 16, 2010
Description: Depictions of Santa Claus in the Brooklyn Collection.
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Subject: Holidays
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2011 December 22, 2011
Description: Brooklyn's "baby parade," held in conjunction with Coney Island's Mardi Gras.
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Subject: Children, Coney Island
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2010 August 12, 2010
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
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2017, 2017 January 31
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: The world-famous Wonder Wheel is a Ferris wheel (also known as a pleasure wheel) designed by Romanian immigrant Charles Herman and operated by his business partner Herman Garms.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Coney Island, Entertainment
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022, 2022 May 16
Description: Postcards in the Brooklyn Collection and the messages on them.
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Subject: Postcards
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009 September 14, 2009
Description: For today's Photo of the Week, we have this Brooklyn Eagle photograph of a spring-themed stained glass window.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Arts, People
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 February 28, 2022
Description: Comparing 1980s and 1990s photographs by Anders Goldfarb of Williamsburg to their present-day appearance.
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Subject: Williamsburg, Photography, Goldfarb, Anders
Creator: Kaitlin Holt
Date: 2014 August 27, 2014
Description: The Williamsburg Bridge was completed in 1903, making it the second of three bridges to connect Brooklyn to our neighbors in Manhattan.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Bridges, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 August 29, 2022
Description: The story of Maison Foffe, a restaurant in Brooklyn Heights owned by Alfred Foffe.
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Subject: Food, Brooklyn Heights
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2010 November 4, 2010
Description: Albertype photographs in the Brooklyn Collection.
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Subject: Photography
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 June 11, 2012
Description: A recently donated trove of family photographs.
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Subject: Photography
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 April 6, 2012
Description: The city's efforts to eradicate wild marijuana plants in Summer 1951.
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Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: January 28 2011, 2011
Description: This is a shot of fans from Game 1 of the World Series pitting the New York Yankees against Brooklyn's own beloved Dodgers. 73,365 eager fans packed Yankee Stadium that Tuesday afternoon.
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Subject: Sports, Baseball, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 March 30, 2021
Description: A strike among dairy workers causes a milk shortage.
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Subject: Food, Industry, Labor
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2011 January 11, 2011
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: The Mawer-Gulden-Annis olive packing company at Bush Terminal.
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Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015, 2015 April 7
Description: To close out National Bicycle Month, here's a little a celebration of bicycling in Brooklyn, from 1897 to the present.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports, Women
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021 May 24, 2021
Description: This gangly construction was the brainchild of Rev. Dr. James Donohoe of St. Thomas Aquinas Church at 9th Street and 4th Avenue who, desiring to fund the construction of a new school to serve his parish, struck on the idea of offering outdoor picture shows on the planned school site.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Religion, Entertainment
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2022 April 8, 2022
Description: A comparison of two photos of the Brooklyn Eagle's eagle statue, now housed at Central Library.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Library history
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015 October 8, 2015
Description: Examples from the library's trade card collection.
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Subject: Industry
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 July 18, 2010
Description: Using historic directories to research Brooklyn's black community during the Civil War era.
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Subject: Directories, Race
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2009, 2009 March 18
Description: The history of the small neighborhood of Parkville, near/part of the larger neighborhood of Kensington.
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Subject: Neighborhood history, Kensington
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015 February 18, 2015
Description: Exploring Brooklyn city directories to find information about Brooklyn residents' occupations and races.
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Subject: Directories, Race
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2008, 2008 December 30
Description: Guest post by Brooklyn Connections intern. Caribbean immigration to Brooklyn and the annual West Indian American Day Carnival celebration.
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Subject: Immigration, Race, Brooklyn Connections
Creator: Emilia Boothe
Date: 2017 August 31, 2017
Description: The history of Middle School 57 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a partner with the Brooklyn Connections program.
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Subject: Brooklyn Connections, School History, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2012 September 25, 2012
Description: Housing for WWII veterans in Brooklyn, including Quonset houses. Some housing was designed for disabled veterans.
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Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2011 November 17, 2011
Description: In 2017, the Brooklyn Collection (now part of the new Center for Brooklyn History) joined the Internet Archive’s Community Webs program, in which public libraries around the country are given the funding and support to start and sustain web archives. We have been archiving Brooklyn web content through this program for over three years now.
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Subject: Projects
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 February 23, 2021
Description: Brooklyn Connections education program.
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Subject: Brooklyn Connections
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2008, 2008 August 30
Description: Brooklyn's restaurant scene in the 19th century and today.
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Subject: Food
Creator: Lisa DeBoer
Date: 2009, 2009 April 9
Description: A student strike in Brooklyn in 1950.
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Subject: School History, Children
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2013 June 1, 2013
Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to the intersection of Sutter and Saratoga Avenues in Brownsville in July 1923, when severe storms turned the borough's streets into rivers, flooded subway stations and basements, and caused geysers to erupt from manhole covers.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Weather, Children
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 August 23, 2021
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: 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: An author talk with Robert Murphy, author of After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball.
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Subject: Baseball, Events, Sports
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 March 23, 2010
Description: Harper's Weekly print of the frozen East River in 1871.
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Subject: Prints Collection, Weather
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 January 28
Description: Madame Ada Louise Anderson's feat of pedestrianism at the Mozart Garden in Brooklyn, as depicted in contemporary prints.
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Subject: Prints Collection, Sports
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 December 7, 2011
Description: Musings on springtime and the "Brooklynese" accent.
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Subject: Literature, Postcards, Weather
Creator: Lisa DeBoer
Date: 2009, 2009 April 2
Description: A guide to finding and searching our photography collections online.
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Subject: Photography
Creator: Lisa DeBoer
Date: 2009, 2009 March 20
Description: The W.F. Mangels Company of Coney Island, an "amusement manufacturer."
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Subject: Coney Island, Industry
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 August 31
Description: Brooklyn contributions to the Veterans History project at the Library of Congress, including a recently departed Brooklyn Public Library safety officer who served in Vietnam.
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Subject: War, Projects, Library staff
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 November 9, 2011
Description: The history of vegetarianism in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Food
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 July 27, 2010
Description: A trivia event at the Brooklyn Collection.
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Subject: Events
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 September 29, 2010
Description: The history of Vanderveer Park.
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Subject: Flatbush, Neighborhood history, Maps
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2020, 2020 November 28
Description: Photographer Larry Racioppo reflects on the convergence of Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday and shares photos of both holidays.
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Subject: Photography, Holidays
Creator: Larry Racioppo
Date: 2018 February 13, 2018
Description: A soldier in Korea requests and receives a Brooklyn street sign.
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Subject: War
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 November 10, 2010
Description: Guest post. Part one of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue.
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Subject: Neighborhood history, Sunset Park, South Slope
Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017 March 7, 2017
Description: Singer Enrico Caruso as documented by the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Subject: Entertainment
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 March 16, 2011
Description: Did you know that in 1934, the Brooklyn Jewish Center founded the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books? Though it's little-remembered today, the initiative was championed by such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, and Upton Sinclair, and was celebrated nationwide.
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Subject: Jewish history, Literature
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 July 1, 2022
Description: A 1902 series in the Brooklyn Eagle on types of Brooklyn girls.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Women
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 April 29
Description: Notes on Greenwood Cemetery and the Cemetery of the Evergreens.
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Subject: Cemeteries
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 January 13
Description: Two Brooklyn Dodgers-themed "valentines."
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Subject: Baseball
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2010 February 16, 2010
Description: Today's Photo of the Week takes us to Trommer’s Brewery at Bushwick Avenue and Conway Street. Brewery President George Trommer (right) is smashing a beer bottle to celebrate a new fleet of delivery trucks.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Alcohol
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021 November 1, 2021
Description: Transcribing three manuscript documents related to slavery in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Race, Black history
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009 August 20, 2009
Description: Tara Cuthbert and Stuart Solzberg, creators of the Bushwick Farms project, will describe their ongoing art project.
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Subject: Bushwick, Genealogy, Arts, Events
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 October 27, 2010
Description: The Queen of Tots beauty pageant at the Infants Home of Brooklyn.
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Subject: Children, Social Welfare
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2013, 2013 December 17
Description: Tuesday, June 14th is World Blood Donor Day, so this Photo of the Week takes us to a scene at Kings County Hospital on October 22, 1948. According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle caption, eight firefighters donated four quarts of blood "To Save Three Lives."
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Subject: Health, Photo of the Week
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 June 13, 2022
Description: The history of PS 26, among other schools.
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Subject: School History
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2012 December 20, 2012
Description: Presenting "To Brooklyn and Back - A Mohawk Story" at the Brooklyn Collection.
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Subject: Native history, Events, Film, Race
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2011 November 30, 2011
Description: Three recent Brooklyn memoirs: Martin Levinson' Brooklyn Boomer, Jerry Castaldo's Brooklyn NY: a Grim Retrospective, Nicole Scarcella's Made in Sicily Born in Brooklyn.
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Subject: People
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 December 27, 2011
Description: A talk with Cezar Del Valle about Brooklyn theater history.
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Subject: Events, Entertainment, Theaters
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 February 21, 2010
Description: Guest post. Part four of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue, this one on the avenue's scrap yards and the people who work in them.
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Subject: Industry, Neighborhood history, Photography, Sunset Park, South Slope
Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017 June 30, 2017
Description: Guest post. Part three of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue. A visit to the shop Mystic Essentials of Brooklyn, a botánica with materials related to Santería (also known as Lucumí ), Espiritismo and Vodou.
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Subject: Sunset Park, South Slope, Neighborhood history, Photography
Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017, 2017 May 24
Description: Guest post. Part two of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue, this one focused on VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Post #7096.
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Subject: Neighborhood history, Sunset Park, South Slope, War
Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017, 2017 April 4
Description: The death by electrocution of Luna Park's Topsy the elephant and an exploration of whether or not, as is commonly claimed,Thomas Edison was involved.
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Subject: Coney Island
Creator: Erin
Date: 2014 December 12, 2014
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: Homing pigeons in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Animals
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2012 June 25, 2012
Description: Some history of vaccination in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Health
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2013 January 17, 2013
Description: Brooklyn Eagle coverage of rainy days.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Weather
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2009 June 22, 2009
Description: Hunting down the identity of a statue found at Central Library, the author identifies it as Henry R. Stiles and explores his life.
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Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2019 June 11, 2019
Description: Christmas advertisements in Brooklyn Life magazine.
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Subject: Holidays
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 December 18, 2012
Description: The story of Sidney Franklin, a young Jewish boy who became a bullfighter in Spain after training in Mexico.
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Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 November 14, 2011
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
Description: The "Register" of Brooklyn's P.S. 1, Brooklyn's first Public Elementary School, which was founded in the 1830s.
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Subject: School History
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 January 16
Description: Midcentury efforts to ban switchblades.
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Subject: Crime
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2015 April 3, 2015
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
Creator: Natiba Guy-Clement
Date: 2017 March 28, 2017
Description: Guest post. The author tracks her family history in Brooklyn using Brooklyn Collection resources.
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Subject: Genealogy
Creator: Joan Harrison
Date: 2016 April 29, 2016
Description: This week’s image depicts a local soap fat collector. Taken by amateur photographer George Bradford Brainerd in the 1870s, we see a man carrying a large tin pail on his back.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, People, Industry
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021, 2021 September 20
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: Abraham Lincoln never thought he would witness a kickflip. Never mind seeing one while cast in bronze and elevated nearly nineteen feet high over the southeast corner of Prospect Park lake.
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Subject: Sports, Prospect Park, Arts
Creator: Nathaniel Weisberg
Date: 2022 August 9, 2022
Description: 1928 Kismet Temple booklet.
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Subject: Ephemera Collection
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 November 6
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: Brooklyn Collection Librarian June Koffi and others will give an illustrated talk on the history of the race track, the founding of the First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay that welcomed many of its African American workers, and the community that grew around them.
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Subject: Events, Sports, Black history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 February 24
Description: Looking at historic trade catalogs for historic gift ideas.
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Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009 December 22, 2009
Description: A 1903 trade catalogue titled "Saws--Their History, Manufacture and Use, Continued" from Brooklyn company Joshua Oldham and Sons.
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Subject: Industry
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 June 25
Description: Business and Industry section of the Brooklyn Collection's Ephemera Collection and its materials on the ropemaking industry.
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Subject: Ephemera Collection, Industry
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2008, 2008 December 9
Description: A historic photo of Prospect Park's Endale Arch compared to its 2020 restoration.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Prospect Park, Architecture
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021, 2021 November 29
Description: The Rainone-Morra Family Papers, documenting an Italian family in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Immigration
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 May 17, 2012
Description: Color slides in the Irving Herzberg Photography Collection.
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Subject: Photography, Herzberg, Irving
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2014 July 14, 2014
Description: Reconstructing the life of a young dentist and poet from Syria who lived in Brooklyn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Subject: People, Immigration
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021, 2021 September 1
Description: A short video interview with photographer Anders Goldfarb.
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Subject: Photography, Goldfarb, Anders
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 July 11, 2012
Description: A brief history of the Pratt Institute and the business and fortunes of its founder, Charles Pratt.
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Subject: School History, Industry, Library history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 October 17, 2011
Description: 19th century photos of the Peet family and their residence.
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Subject: Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 June 4, 2012
Description: Guest post. Photographer Larry Racioppo shares images of Prospect Park and stories of he and his family spending time there over five decades.
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Subject: Prospect Park, Photography, Urban Development
Creator: Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017 May 5, 2017
Description: To celebrate the announcement in the beginning of March that theaters will reopen in April, our photo of the week takes us to the corner of Graham Avenue and Debevoise Street in Williamsburg. This corner was the location of the Folly Theater which opened on the afternoon of October 14, 1901.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Williamsburg, Theaters, Entertainment, Neighborhood history
Creator: Amy Lau
Date: 2021, 2021 March 19
Description: The history of maternity care in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Women
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2010 January 3, 2010
Description: A strike by the tugboat crewmen of New York harbor leads to the city practically shutting down.
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Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2010 November 9, 2010
Description: A talk with author Melissa Vaughan and photographer Michael Harlan Turkell on The New Brooklyn Cookbook.
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Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2012 January 19, 2012
Description: A collection of photographs of activities of the National League of Women's Services at Fort Totten.
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Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2010, 2010 July 29
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