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Photography Collections

Images by Subject
An additional 10-20,000 positives, negatives, slides, studio cards, and color transparencies are being physically sorted into subject categories for access. If you would like to see any of the images listed, please email photos@brooklynhistory.org.

AIDS in Brooklyn (part of Exhibits Department)
American Revolution
Armies
Armories
Artwork
Aviation
- Airplanes/airlines
- Helicopters
- Dirigibles
- Parachutes
- People in aviation
- Mail planes
Bridges (all boroughs)
Brooklyn Dodgers
- Includes Ebbets Field
Brooklyn Eagle statue
Brooklyn Historical Society
- Building
  - Interior and Exterior
- Dinners and Fundraisers
- Events
- Exhibit openings
- Staff
- Library
Buildings/Houses – Identified (See also Rutter, E.E. ) and unidentified
- Dutch Homesteads
- Town homes
- Apartments
- Single-family
Business & Commerce
- Advertisements
- Bars and Restaurants
- Business
- Eberhard Faber
- Mobil Oil
- Commerce
- Factories & refineries
- Merchants and vendors
- Mills
- Women at work
- See also Saul Goldsmith Collection
- See also Transportation – People
Cemeteries (landscape images)
- General
- Greenwood
Churches
- Buildings
- Congregants
- Plymouth Church
Civic Organizations
- General
- Sanitary Fair (see also Civil War - Nichols album )
- Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
- BCC, Women's Dinner, 1930
Civil War
Clubs/Associations
- General
- Brooklyn associations
Crown Heights History Project (part of Exhibits Department)
Ebbets Field (see Brooklyn Dodgers )
Engineering & construction
- See also Rutter, E.E .
- See also Saul Goldsmith Collection
Ethnic groups
- Italian Americans
- Hispanic Americans
- Asian Americans
- African Americans
- Russian Americans
- Middle Eastern Americans
- West Indian Americans
Farm life
Family Collections
- By alpha surname
- See also Portrait Files
Fire department
Fire destruction
Government, US
Hasidim (see Religion - Jewish life )
Hospitals
- Kings County Hospital
Interiors
- Identified by address
  - Adrian Boutrelle Collection
- Unidentified
Judaism (see Religion - Jewish life )
Lefferts Homestead (see Prospect Park )
Litchfield Mansion (see Prospect Park )
Long Island (see also Postcards, albums, and LI section of Mezz)
- By town
Long Island Rail Road (see Transportation )
Musicians/Conductors
Manhattan
Maps
Memorials, markers and gravestones
Museums
- Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
- Brooklyn Museum (of Art)
- Brooklyn Children's Museum
Kings County Historical Society
Navy Yard
NEIGHBORHOODS by decade
New York State
Parades
Parks
Parks Survey by Praeger, 1934 (in separate boxes)
Plymouth Church (see Churches )
Portrait file
- Identified people (alpha order)
- Unidentified (by age group and gender)
Prospect Park
- General
- Grand Army Plaza
- Prospect Park drawings and plans
- Prospect Park Zoo
Queens (See also Saul Goldsmith Collection )
- By neighborhood
Recreation
- Horseracing and gaming
- Water recreation
- Sports
- Hunting
- Children
Religion
- General
- Jewish life
Rutter, E.E.
Saul Goldsmith Collection
- Aerial photographs – Queens
- Business & commerce – Brooklyn and Queens
- Engineering & construction – Brooklyn and Queens
- Street scenes
Schools
- Class photos
- Buildings
Ships
Shipping
Staten Island
States
Street scenes (by alpha-streets)
- See also Saul Goldsmith Collection
Transportation
- People
- Trolleys
- Busses
- Cars and Bicycles
- LIRR
- Commuters
- Elevated trains
- See also Brooklyn Trolley Collection
Venues
- Theaters
- Stadiums
- Washington Centennial
- Waterfronts
  - See also Saul Goldsmith Collection
Weeksville
Wyckoff House (see Canarsie )

The Library will be open to readers at the following times:

Wed, Thurs & Fri: 1 - 5 pm

The First & Third Sat.
of the Month: 10 am
- 2 pm
(i.e. Sept. 6, Sept. 20, Oct. 4, Oct. 18, Nov. 1, Nov. 15, Dec. 6, Dec. 20 )

Special Note:
September 24th the Library will be closing at 4 p.m.

Manuscripts and archival collections are open for use during these days by prior appointment only with the archivist .

The image database is also available for use when the library is open, and appointments are highly recommended to ensure access at a time you prefer.

To schedule appointments or for questions about archives or historic photographs, please contact the archivist or photo archivist , respectively. For other library reference questions, please contact the reference librarian .

We recommend that all researchers and readers contact the library ahead of time so that the library staff can serve you best, as we anticipate high demand.

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