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Happy Passover and Easter!
Tis the season of Easter and Passover celebrations! In recognition of both holidays we thought we’d bring you two photos this week
Posted on April 4, 2018
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131 Miles and Countless Stories: Finding the Lost Histories of Brooklyn’s Waterfront
My goal was simple but elusive – to figure out exactly how many miles of coastline there were in the borough of Brooklyn.
Posted on January 20, 2018
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Through His Lens: The photographs of Theobald Wilson
In 2013, Brooklyn Historical Society acquired the photographs of Theobald Wilson, a commercial photographer who operated in Brooklyn from the...
Posted on June 5, 2017
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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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Bushwick and Her Neighbors, Vol. 1 is now online!
Brooklyn Historical Society received a generous grant from Gerry Charitable Trust in 2015 to digitize and catalog seven scrapbooks from Eugene L
Posted on December 19, 2016
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Real Brooklyn, a day in our lives photographs now available at BHS
This post was authored by BHS Library and Archives processing intern Melissa Aaronberg. Melissa processed the Real Brooklyn, a day in our lives...
Posted on March 10, 2016
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11,713 Photos of the Week: Brooklyn Visual Heritage has Launched!
Announcing the Brooklyn Visual Heritage Website!
Posted on March 6, 2013
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The Frank J. Trezza Brooklyn Navy Yard Collection
The origins of the Brooklyn Navy Yard (officially known as the New York Naval Shipyard) date back to 1801, when the United States Navy acquired...
Posted on August 5, 2011
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The 1977 Blackout
On July 13, 1977 at 9:34 pm, the lights went out in New York. This wasn’t the first blackout in New York City—the “where were...
Posted on July 7, 2011
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The Brooklyn Shore
Once described as the "nation's playground," (well, at least in the image above) the Brooklyn shore used to be the hot place to holiday
Posted on June 3, 2011