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Written by Keara Duggan on November 23rd, 2011
Sunday School Thanksgiving, ca. 1910, v1981.284.20; Emmanuel House lantern slide collection, v1981.284; Brooklyn Historical Society.
This image showing a Thanksgiving spread at Emmanuel House is one of eighty-seven lantern slides in BHS’s Emmanuel House lantern slide collection, circa 1910-1914. Emmanuel House was located at 131 Steuben Street, near Pratt Institute in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. According to the 1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, “it was maintained by the Young Men’s League of Emmanuel Baptist Church [and] has reading rooms, game rooms, a gymnasium, and bowling alleys for boys; and free sewing school and kindergarten classes for girls.”
Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery. Use this database to search for individual photographs. Currently a small number of our images are available online, but we regularly add new photographs. You can also visit BHS’s Othmer Library Wed-Fri, 1-5 p.m. to search through our entire collection of images.
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Written by Keara Duggan on November 9th, 2011
The junction of Flatbush and Church Avenues, ca. 1918, v1973.6.385; Brooklyn photograph and illustration collection. ARC.202; Brooklyn Historical Society.
This image of Flatbush and Church Avenues, taken by F. A. Walter for Brooklyn Life magazine, looks away from the Old Dutch Reformed Church toward the Bank of Flatbush and the Flatbush Theater ca. 1918. Brooklyn Life was a weekly magazine in publication from 1890 to 1931. The magazine featured poetry, book reviews, art and theater columns, coverage of club life, and gossip about local notables. When the magazine began its run in 1890, Brooklyn was still an independent city, with the editor announcing on March 8, 1890, “Remember you are to work for Brooklyn first, last and always…” At the magazine’s conclusion in 1931, Brooklyn had become a borough of New York City. The entire run of Brooklyn Life and its index is available in bound volumes at the BHS library.
Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our
online image gallery. Use this database to search for individual photographs. Currently a small number of our images are available online, but we regularly add new photographs. You can also visit BHS’s
Othmer Library Wed-Fri, 1-5 p.m. to search through our entire collection of images.
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Tags: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flatbush, Photo of the Week, Photographs, Photography Collection
Written by Keara Duggan on August 19th, 2011
Want 
to know all of the latest news regarding chefs, food and guests attending this year’s Brooklyn Bounty Cocktail Party? Check out BHS’s newest blog, Brooklyn Bounty. This year’s cocktail party will include tastings of food and drink from Brooklyn growers, chefs and purveyors; historic cocktails in our beautiful library; storytelling by local people from neighborhoods far and wide across Brooklyn; viewings of historical and new maps and materials related to local food and agriculture; a creative silent auction of unique Brooklyn prizes and experiences; and music by The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn. All funds raised at Brooklyn Bounty will be used to support BHS’s nationally-recognized education programs. Purchase your ticket here.
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Written by Keara Duggan on March 30th, 2011
Flatbush Branch of Woman’s Needlework Guild at Dutch Reform Church, (January 22, 1916), v1972.2.57; M. Gorodess; Brooklyn Historical Society.
The Woman’s Needlework Guild was a charitable organization founded near Dorchester, England by Lady Wolverton in 1883, the aim of which was to make and provide new garments and articles of clothing for hospitals and other nonprofit institutions. The organization migrated across the Atlantic, first to Philadelphia in 1885, and by 1890 a branch had been established in Brooklyn. Membership to the Guild was contingent only upon providing at least two articles of clothing per year. The Needlework Guild still exists today in the U.S., and there is an operating branch in Staten Island.
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Tags: brooklyn photography, Flatbush, Photo of the Week, Photographs, photography, Photography Collection
Written by Keara Duggan on February 17th, 2011
From the Brooklyn Historical Society Photography Collection, V1972.1.1038.
1910, The Riccadonna Hotel. Located on Ocean Parkway in Brighton Beach, Coney Island, this grand hotel was one of Dreamland’s finest attractions. (Dreamland was an amusement park in Coney Island from 1904-1911). The Riccadonna contained more than 200 refurbished guest rooms (upgraded in 1909), large dining halls, parlors, corridors, smoking rooms, and even writing rooms. The hotel was especially appealing to tourists who wanted to escape from the hot summer days and nights in New York.
Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’ collection? Visit our online image gallery. Use this database to search for individual photographs. Currently a small number of our images are available online, but we regularly add new photographs. You can also visit BHS’ Othmer Library Wed-Fri, 1-5pm to search through our entire collection of images.
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Tags: Photo of the Week, Photographs, photography, Photography Collection
