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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: 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: In celebration of the 75th anniversary of its founding, the Long Island Historical Society (LIHS) sponsored a photo contest geared toward Long Island’s students.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors , Photography
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 September 12, 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 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: While we don’t have all the details behind this particular group photo of a staff party for the Brooklyn Historical Society, we know that director, David Kahn, is pictured on the far right with fellow staff members around 1990.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors , Library staff
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 December 26, 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: In the early 2000s, the Brooklyn Historical Society wanted to put together an exhibit to celebrate the reinstatement of the Miss Rheingold contest in 2003. However, the contest—seemingly updated for modern audiences—didn't seem to be nearly as popular as its original concept and ended after only a year. The exhibit too fell apart and never came to fruition.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors , Alcohol, Women, Exhibits
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2024 February 20, 2024
Description: On January 1, 1898, the city of Brooklyn officially became a borough and joined Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx to form New York City. To mark the centennial of this event, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) created an original theatrical production titled Voices of Brooklyn.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors , Events
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2024 March 18, 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: 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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