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Description: Notes from the 1921 annual report of Brooklyn Public Library.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 March 30
Description: The original design for Brooklyn's Central Library.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 April 2
Description: Announcing Brooklyn Collection's honorable mention in the ArchivesNext Best Archives on the Web awards and sharing some Brooklyn mustaches of yore.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 April 24, 2009, 2009 April 24
Description: The history of library budget cuts.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Richard Reyes-Gavilan
Date: 2009, 2009 June 1
Description: The documentary Herb and Dorothy about the art collecting Vogels.
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Subject: Arts, Library history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 June 8
Description: Advance notice of a photograph inventory that will impact research services.
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Subject: Library history , Projects
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 July 10
Description: Pet shows at Central Library in the 1950s.
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Subject: Library history , Animals
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 July 27
Description: The history of pioneering children's librarianship at Brooklyn Public Library.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 August 13
Description: A history of some of the bookplates used at Brooklyn Public Library.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 September 24
Description: Tours of Central Library during Open House New York weekend.
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Subject: Events, Library history
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2009, 2009 October 6
Description: Announcing the start of the Brooklyn Collection Twitter account.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 January 8, 2010
Description: The history of Brooklyn's Central Library in honor of its 69th birthday.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2010 February 3, 2010
Description: Clara Whitehill Hunt, pioneering BPL children's librarian.
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Subject: Library history , Children, Library staff
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 February 19, 2010
Description: An appeal for help with the library's budget struggles.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Richard Reyes-Gavilan
Date: 2010 May 24, 2010
Description: Brooklyn Collection staff under threat from budget cuts.
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Subject: Library history , Library staff
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 June 9, 2010
Description: A history of a past library budget crisis tied into a similar present-day crisis.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2010 June 11, 2010
Description: A history of library bookmobiles in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 June 29, 2011
Description: A 1952 film in the Brooklyn Collection's 16mm film collection featuring Brooklyn Public Library.
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Subject: Film, Library history , School History
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 October 6, 2011
Description: A brief history of the Pratt Institute and the business and fortunes of its founder, Charles Pratt.
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Subject: School History, Industry, Library history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 October 17, 2011
Description: Thomas Hudson Jones's entrance grille for the Central Library.
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Subject: Library history , Arts
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2012, 2012 February 15
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2012 August 30, 2012
Description: The Mount Prospect Reservoir next to the site of what is now Central Library.
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Subject: Library history , Urban Development
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 September 13, 2012
Description: An introduction to BPL's new catalog.
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Subject: Library history , Projects
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2012 December 5, 2012
Description: A historic mail slot at Central Library leads to exploring the history of mail delivery in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: n.derise
Date: 2013, 2013 January 2
Description: The library's new logo and its logos through the years.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2013 January 14, 2013
Description: A "library rap" from the Crown Heights branch on Umatic tape is digitized.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2013 February 8, 2013
Description: An exhibit of historic Brooklyn Public Library materials.
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Subject: Exhibits, Library history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2013 September 26, 2013
Description: An overview of some of Brooklyn's Carnegie libraries.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2014, 2014 February 25
Description: A history of Brooklyn Public Library's Stone Avenue branch on the occasion of its 100th year in operation.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2014 May 7, 2014
Description: Documentation of the library's response to New York state declaring Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer "obscene," in honor of Banned Books Week.
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Subject: Library history , Literature
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2014 September 22, 2014
Description: A comparison of two photos of the Brooklyn Eagle's eagle statue, now housed at Central Library.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Library history
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015 October 8, 2015
Description: Confirming the provenance of the Brooklyn Eagle statue at Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Library history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2018 February 23, 2018
Description: The history of readers' advisory at Brooklyn Public Library.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Madeline Knight-Dixon
Date: 2019 October 9, 2019
Description: Selections from ephemera discovered in the Brooklyn Collection clipping files.
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Subject: Ephemera Collection, LGBTQ history, Animals, Library history , Transportation
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2020 March 11, 2020
Description: This week is American Library Association's National Library Week, a time to celebrate library workers and outreach efforts, and promote library use and support. The bookmobile pictured above dates back to BPL's outreach efforts in the 1950s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Michell Montalbano
Date: 2021, 2021 April 5
Description: A brief history of the construction of Brooklyn's Central Library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture, Library history , Neighborhood history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 May 21, 2021
Description: A New Year's post in honor of BPL's 125th anniversary.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 December 27, 2021
Description: Today, former Brooklyn Collection materials, staff, and all the rest officially moved to our new home at the Brooklyn Historical Society building on Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. As our own exhibits at Central Library also become a thing of the past, let's appreciate this view of the Flatbush Avenue side of Central Library, where the Atoms for Peace exhibit trailer was parked in the 1950s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Library history , Politics
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2022 January 24, 2022
Description: Visitors to the Center for Brooklyn History on Pierrepont Street sometimes ask if the building served another purpose before it was a historical society. The answer is—it was always a historical society! Built in 1881, the Queen Anne-style building was designed by architect George Browne Post.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture, Library history
Creator: Deborah Tint, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 February 15, 2022
Description: On Monday, June 18, 1962, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle announced the opening of a "New Borough Library": the Brooklyn Heights Branch and Business Library. The newspaper sent photographer Ben Schiff to take photos of the new library and its staff, including Janet Chien, seen in the above Photo of the Week.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Library history , Library staff
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 May 6, 2022
Description: Can you guess where this week's Photo of the Week was taken? "Referred to as 'the hole' by library personnel," this cavernous space was the sub-basement of our very own Central Library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Library history , Architecture
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 September 26, 2022
Description: The week’s photo of the week shows an unidentified man standing in front of our landmark building located at 128 Pierrepont Street.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2022 November 14, 2022
Description: Today, we are looking at the legacy of Executive Director David Kahn and how, under his leadership, the society transitioned to a new era as the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Opening the Pocket Doors, Staff, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2022 December 19, 2022
Description: Today’s photo of the week shows a moment from the opening of New Neighbors: Sunset Park's Chinese Community in June 1996.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Opening the Pocket Doors, Immigration, Neighborhood history, Sunset Park, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 January 9, 2023
Description: Throughout its 157-year history, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) executed over 150 exhibitions. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working to process the Exhibits and Special Projects portion of BHS’s institutional archive. To wrap up this part of the project, this blog post highlights the exhibits that stand out as significant in BHS history, particularly those that demonstrate how the society's values changed over time.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history , Exhibits
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 February 1, 2023
Description: This week, we are sharing an image of former Brooklyn Historical Society President, Susan Mullin, who both enacted and embodied change within the Historical Society.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Opening the Pocket Doors, Women, Staff, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 February 20, 2023
Description: To celebrate Women's History Month, this week's photo takes us back to 1968 for a fashion show presented by the Women's Committee of the Long Island History Society (LIHS).
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Library history , Women
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 March 20, 2023
Description: It’s not every day you get the chance to see what lies underneath the floors of an old building. And while we don’t have any beating hearts underneath our floorboards, this photograph offers us a rare glimpse of the foundation of 128 Pierrepont Street.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 April 24, 2023
Description: Insight into and images from the life of Edna Huntington, onetime LIHS librarian.
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Subject: Library staff, Library history , Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Women
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 May 15, 2023
Description: So where was the Long Island Historical Society for the first 18 years of its existence? The society rented several rooms in the Hamilton Building, located on the corner of Court and Joralemon Streets.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history , Photo of the Week
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 June 19, 2023
Description: A history of bookplates and examples from CBH's collections.
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Subject: Library history
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 June 29, 2023
Description: This week’s photo of the week takes us on a journey into the depths of the Long Island Historical Society (LIHS) building. In the cellar, nestled opposite the crawl space and underneath the stairs, is where one would find the LIHS vault.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 July 17, 2023
Description: Part of the original design by George B. Post, the clock tower has been a part of the building since its construction between the years of 1878 and 1881. However, the clock tower was never installed with an actual mechanism for the clock and has therefore never worked.
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Subject: Library history , Opening the Pocket Doors, Architecture
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 August 21, 2023
Description: If you were to go up to the third floor of 128 Pierrepont and walk to the doors that read “Gina Ingoglia Weiner Gallery” and peer through the windows, you would see a room that currently holds a portion of the Center for Brooklyn History’s collections in neat rows of archival boxes. But this room was not always utilized for storage; prior to a storage room, it was used as an exhibit gallery for the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 October 23, 2023
Description: If you've visited the Othmer Library, you might have noticed the large stained glass lunettes (arched windows) on the gallery level. These are original to the space, but did you know there used to be more stained glass features throughout the building?...an even greater mystery lies in the identity of the artist who crafted these stained glass pieces. To date, the building records have yet to reveal the artist's name, but there is a probable candidate.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history , Architecture
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 November 6, 2023
Description: In 1993, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) opened a groundbreaking exhibition on HIV and AIDS in Brooklyn: AIDS/Brooklyn. This exhibition aimed to document the crisis in Brooklyn through the material culture, personal narratives, and life histories of those living with HIV/AIDS.
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Subject: Exhibits, Library history , LGBTQ history, Health
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 November 15, 2023
Description: In 1868, when the former Long Island Historical Society (LIHS) first purchased the plot of land intended for their new, permanent home, there was a plethora of possibilities.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history , Architecture
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 November 15, 2023
Description: An overview of educational programming at BHS as part of the institutional archives project.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2024 January 2, 2024
Description: In the 1990s, the librarians at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) dedicated significant efforts to implementing measures aimed at preserving and enhancing access to the Society’s collections.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2024 January 16, 2024
Description: Did your favorite singer release an album recently and use an image of a card catalog to promote said album? Are you not entirely sure what a card catalog actually is? Not to worry, we are here to explain!
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history , Library staff
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2024 April 22, 2024
Description: To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers' victory over the Yankees in the 1955 World Series, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) curated PLAY BALL! – an exhibit that told the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Baseball, Sports, Library history , Exhibitions
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2024 May 20, 2024
Description: Summer is here, bringing long lazy days with time for relaxed reading at the beach and parks. This photo shows a group of youngsters attending a library festival at the Bushwick Branch of Brooklyn Public Library in 1968.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Library history
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2024 June 12, 2024
Description: Have you ever felt like this at work? The real question is, what exactly is the person in the photograph feeling and expressing? Why was this photograph taken?
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library staff, Library history
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2024 June 24, 2024
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