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BHS Map Collection Update

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Tess Colwell

Brooklyn Historical Society’s Library & Archives team has an exciting project update to share! In 2017, BHS received a generous grant from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support Portal to the Past: Creating Brooklyn Historical Society’s Digital Map … Continue reading →

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Bushwick and her Neighbors, Vol. 1-3 now online!

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Tess Colwell

Brooklyn Historical Society received a generous grant from Gerry Charitable Trust in 2015 to digitize and catalog seven scrapbooks from the Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks [Arc.308]. Eugene Armbruster was an amateur photographer and historian during the late 19th … Continue reading →

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Colonial New York Close Up: Revisiting Bernard Ratzer’s Plan of the City of New York

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Lisa Miller

  Brooklyn Historical Society is excited to put two highlights of our collection on display for a limited engagement this summer in honor of the 240th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn: two versions of the “Plan of the City … Continue reading →

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New to the Library Collection: Tauranac New York City Subway Maps

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Lisa Miller

This special edition of the Map of the Month celebrates a recent donation to the library: a set of New York City transit maps designed and published by Tauranac Maps. Pictured above is a portion of the latest Tauranac New … Continue reading →

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Map of the Month–February 2015

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Lisa Miller

February’s Map of the Month, “The Missing Link” is more properly described as a broadside, for the map was published in October 1939 by the Brooklyn-Battery Bridge Coalition to support an appeal of the veto of the bridge’s construction by then … Continue reading →

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