Holiday House, February 28, 1960, v1974.4.1364; John D. Morrell photographs, ARC.005; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Photographer John D. Morrell was Assistant Librarian of the Long Island Historical Society (today known as Brooklyn Historical Society), and donated more than 2,600 photographs of Brooklyn neighborhoods to the library. Most are photographs documenting Brooklyn storefronts and blocks. The collection is a wonderful resource for researchers due to the detail included with each photograph. This photograph shows a small store called Holiday House, located on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street taken on February 28, 1960 – it’s great to have that much geographic information for so many images!
Thanks to a generous grant from Gerry Charitable Trust, Morrell’s photographs have all been scanned and cataloged, and are available on BHS’s online image gallery; a finding aid for the collection is on our catablog.