Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Historical Society

	Past Exhibits 10/2003 to Present Beauty Suspended: The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Turns Forty Reflections on Community Development: Stories from Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Brooklyn Works: 400 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn Dodgers Do It!: Celebrating Brooklyn's 1955 Big Win! Drumbeats in Brooklyn From Synagogue to Church Ferry Tales : Brooklyn's Steamboat Service Gowanus Transformations: Celebrating 150 Years of Manufacturing Here Was New York : Twin Towers in Memorial Images		Landmark and Legacy: Brooklyn Heights and the Preservation Movement in America Lost in Transition:South Brooklyn, Williamsburg & Coney Island Photos from "Gateway to Nations Pow Wow" in Brooklyn Sacred Hearts Slavery in New York: Brooklyn Stories Secret Lives of Streets Up From Flames Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Works by Lewis Hine 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall: Brewing in Brooklyn

Past Exhibits October 2003 to Present
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Exhibition ran May 2005–August 2005

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publishing of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, BHS was pleased to present a small exhibit highlighting the three early editions of Walt Whitman's poem--the second (1856), third (1860), and seventh (1881-2)--that we have in our library collection. Visitors saw how Whitman significantly changed and greatly expanded Leaves of Grass, as he revised it over a period of almost forty years.

Visitors could see a tintype portrait of Whitman, an example of one of the earliest forms of photography and contrast it with the more flamboyant "Carpenter Portrait" (shown at left) that appeared in many of the editions of Leaves of Grass.

Events & Programs
By Month:

The Brooklyn Historical Society's four-story Queen Anne style building was completed in 1881 and was designed by architect George B. Post. more >>