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"Indian Villages": The Story Behind a Map

The surprising story behind one of our most popular maps, “Indian villages, paths, ponds and places in Kings County."

Posted on April 30, 2020

BHS Map Collection Update

Brooklyn Historical Society’s Library & Archives team has an exciting project update to share! In 2017, BHS received a generous...

Posted on September 25, 2018

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

Brooklyn Historical Society received a generous grant from Gerry Charitable Trust in 2015 to digitize and catalog seven scrapbooks from the Eugene L

Posted on March 21, 2017

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

Brooklyn Historical Society is excited to put two highlights of our collection on display for a limited engagement this summer in honor of the...

Posted on June 20, 2016

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

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...

Posted on March 14, 2016

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Map of the Month--February 2015

February's Map of the Month, “The Missing Link” is more properly described as a broadside, for the map was published in October 1939...

Posted on February 2, 2015

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Uncovering Historical Maps at Brooklyn Historical Society

As I wrap up cataloging the last few maps and polishing the last blog post for this phase of Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)-funded...

Posted on December 26, 2014