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Written by Susan Gamble on October 3rd, 2012
“The Beeches” 2nd Avenue and 72nd Street, Bay Ridge, ca. 1910, v1981.15.66; Ralph Irving Lloyd lantern slides, v1981.015; Brooklyn Historical Society.
This week’s photo brings us once again to the work of Ralph Irving Lloyd. Lloyd’s lantern slides of Brooklyn give us a real sense of how much the borough has changed in the last one hundred years. With a quick search using Google Maps Street View one can see that the Bay Ridge neighborhood of the photograph is no longer the palatial hideaway it once was. Today, Bay Ridge is a bustling urban community with just as many cars now as there were trees back then. The home to Brooklynites of many different ethnicities, it is also a much more diverse neighborhood than it was when Lloyd captured this image. If you are interested in a more comprehensive history of Bay Ridge or any other neighborhood in Brooklyn visit our online store and browse through our Neighborhood History Guides.
Interested in seeing more photographs from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery which includes a selection of our images. To search our entire collection of images, visit BHS Othmer Library Wed-Fri 1:00-5:00 p.m.
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Tags: Brooklyn photographs, Photo of the Week, Photography Collection
Written by Susan Gamble on August 8th, 2012
Women in a Horse and Carriage, ca. 1900, v1972.1.652; Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection, ARC.201, Brooklyn Historical Society.
Found in the Alden Family Bible, donated by Mrs. L. Tracey in 1957, this celebratory photograph appears to have been taken in the spring or summer judging from the light colors the two women are wearing, one of whom seems to be wearing a veil. The veil suggests that this photo may show a bride and her maid of honor in the midst of a bridal procession. What do you think the people in the photograph are celebrating? Leave a comment below.
Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images. To search our entire collection of images visit BHS’s Othmer Library Wed-Fri, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
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Tags: Photo of the Week, Photographs, photography, Photography Collection
Written by Susan Gamble on August 1st, 2012
Summer, Dr. Ralph Irving Lloyd, circa 1910, v1981.15.208; Lloyd Collection; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Back in the early twentieth century, before the heyday of air conditioning, shady trees offered a welcome respite from hot Brooklyn sidewalks. This photograph of one shady street was taken by Dr. Ralph Irving Lloyd in Park Slope circa 1910. It is part of the Lloyd Collection which includes roughly 400 lantern photographs of Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and other locations, taken between 1890 and 1920. Dr. Lloyd was an ophthalmologist by trade, but had a passion for photography. Dr. Lloyd’s subjects ranged from old buildings and baseball to scenery and street scenes, We hope this photo will inspire you, next time you’re walking down the hot street with an Italian ice in hand, to picture what that street might have looked like one hundred years ago.
Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images. To search our entire collection of images visit BHS’s Othmer Library Wed-Fri, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
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Tags: Brooklyn, Park Slope, Photo of the Week, Photographs, photography, Photography Collection, summer
Written by Susan Gamble on July 25th, 2012
Doll and Spinning Wheel amid Bookshelves on Top Floor of Long Island Historical Society, 6/21/1979, Amy Davis, v1974.31.103; Photographs Relating to Long Island Historical Society; Brooklyn Historical Society.
With renovations to BHS’s first floor and lower-level underway and Brooklyn Historical Society’s 150th anniversary rapidly approaching, it is fun to look through photographs of the institutional archives collection. One such photograph features this eerie porcelain doll, once housed in BHS’s storage room. This doll may seem lost and lonely, but according to Mrs. Gordon, a former BHS librarian, in the days of volunteer “women’s groups” at BHS the doll collection was considered to be an extremely valuable part of the library’s holdings. This photograph was taken in 1979 when Brooklyn Historical Society was still known as the Long Island Historical Society; the name change took place in 1985. Look for more stories and images from BHS’s past as we launch our 150th anniversary celebration in 2013.
Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images. To search our entire collection of images visit BHS’s Othmer Library Wed-Fri, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
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Written by Susan Gamble on July 18th, 2012
A Man and His Dog on a Bench in Prospect Park, circa 1975, v2008.013.40; Lucille Fornasieri-Gold Photograph Collection; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Lucille Fornasieri-Gold donated ninety-three color and black and white photographs to Brooklyn Historical Society in 2008, including this one of a man and his dog on a bench in Prospect Park. Lucille Fornasieri-Gold was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 1930s. Gold started photographing with a Leica camera in 1969, while her children were in school. She would develop and print in a kitchen darkroom in her Park Slope home. When she moved, she lost her darkroom, and as a result Gold had an abundance of processed negatives that remained unprinted for years. In the 1990s, Gold and her husband scanned the negatives and modified the images using Adobe Photoshop. In 2002, Gold retired and now works only on her photography, processing her negatives digitally. She says of her photography: “When I’m photographing I feel the weight of the antecedents, the spirals of time, the evolution of thought and science.”
The photographs in this document a variety of neighborhoods in Brooklyn as well as New York and New Jersey and subjects as diverse as street scenes, children, dogs, twins, and cityscapes, influenced by the photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gary Winogrand, and Lisette Modell.
Interested in seeing more photos from BHS’s collection? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images. To search our entire collection of images visit BHS’s Othmer Library Wed-Fri, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
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Tags: Brooklyn, Lucille Fornasieri-Gold, Photo of the Week, Photographs, photography, Photography Collection, Prospect Park, Union Docs
