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Exhibit Dates:  Ongoing  

This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks, and documents, visitors will meet a diverse range of residents from Brooklyn's earliest Native American settlements, to the men and women who fought in the Revolutionary War on Brooklyn's shores, to the Brooklynites who worked to abolish slavery, immigrants from all over the world who made Brooklyn home, and the women who kept America going by working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.


It Happened in Brooklyn has been made possible by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and Astoria Federal Savings.  The Brooklyn Historical Society is supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Independence Community Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.
 

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