
Books
Search for books and periodicals about Brooklyn history, politics, development, and culture.
Othmer Library Holiday Closure
The Othmer Library Reading Room will be closed Wednesday, December 25th through Wednesday, January 1st. It will reopen again with regular research hours on Thursday, January 2nd.
Othmer Library Holiday Closure
The Othmer Library Reading Room will be closed Wednesday, December 25th through Wednesday, January 1st. It will reopen again with regular research hours on Thursday, January 2nd.
Brooklyn Historical Society makes its collections available to all researchers. We welcome scholars, teachers and students, genealogists, artists, documentarians, and anyone else curious about the history of Brooklyn.
Search for books and periodicals about Brooklyn history, politics, development, and culture.
The archival collections document the history of Brooklyn and Long Island from the 1600s to the present. Request an appointment to view an archival collection by emailing [email protected] at least two days in advance.
The oral history collections provide evidence about the lives of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Brooklyn residents.
The photography collections at BHS document Brooklyn and Long Island from the 1850s to the present.
BHS’s art and artifact collections represent four centuries of Brooklyn’s visual and material culture. A selection are available to search online.
Explore digitized film, video, and audio recordings from our collections.
The Long-Island Star (1809-1840), the Brooklyn Daily Evening Star (1841), and the Brooklyn Evening Star (1841-1863) are keyword searchable at newspapers.com.
This collection documents Brooklyn land ownership from the late seventeenth century to 1896. Organized by block number, these abstracts show seller (grantor) and buyer (grantee) information.