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Photo of the Week: Lamp Posts of Brooklyn’s Past

Written by Michael Satalof on August 15th, 2012

View of east side of 8th Avenue, June 11, 1961, v1974.9.250; John D. Morrell photographs, ARC.005; Brooklyn Historical Society.

 Either the photographer (and Long Island Historical Society librarian) John D. Morrell captured an intense game of hide-and-seek or the girls are upset with the knowledge that the days of their grand cast-iron lamp posts are numbered.  According to Forgotten New York, this lamp post is a Type G, popular in both parks and residential streets.  Few remain outside of Stuyvesant Town because it wasn’t until 1997 that the Landmarks Preservation Commission granted landmark status to approximately 60 historic street lamp posts acrossNew York City. Some lamps from the same class as this one were given protection based on their historic value to the design iconography of streets across the five boroughs.

It’s unlikely the girls were remotely aware of the lighting in their hide-and-seek territory being replaced by a less ornate aluminum or  steel lamppost and in some ways this Park Slope corner looks much the same today as it did then.  However subtle modifications—like the disappearance of a decorative lamppost and the smart-looking red fire hydrant—demonstrate gradual changes that can seem like huge and unfortunate ones to us today.

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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Brooklyn History Photo of the Week: Summer

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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Brooklyn History Photo of the Week: Louis and Rose Lebman, ca.1950

Written by Keara Duggan on April 11th, 2012

Louis and Rose Lebman, ca.1950, v1986.2.3; Photograph collection; Brooklyn Historical Society.

This photograph, circa 1950, features Louis and Rose Lebman, husband and wife. Louis Lebman owned the Wellmade Glove shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Lebman was a Polish immigrant who worked as a glovemaking apprentice before opening his own shop in Brooklyn, specializing in fine gloves produced from fabric and goatskin. Lebman and his wife Rose lived with their daughter Maria in the same building that housed the Wellmade Glove shop. This photograph was taken at the rear of the shop at 480 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn.

BHS’s archive holds the Wellmade Glove records, which includes extensive information about the shop, the glovemaking business, and the Lebman family.

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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Centenarian Faity Tuttle!

Written by Sady on October 20th, 2010
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Alex di Suvero for The New York Times

BHS is happy to see Brooklynite Esther Leeming “Faity” Tuttle celebrated in The New York Times among fellow centenarians!

Hear Faity talk about John’s Group, a playgroup for children in Prospect Park, Brooklyn accents, and how John narrowly avoided being struck by the 1960 plane crash in Park Slope:

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Faity was born in 1911 and she grew up in Brooklyn Heights, on Henry Street.  She became a professional actress, appearing on Broadway with Humphrey Bogart, among others.  In 1944, she moved to Park Slope with her husband, Ben, and their three children.  She’s a longtime supporter of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and in 1988, she was awarded the BBG’s Forsythia Award for outstanding service.  Her autobiography No Rocking Chair For Me was published in 2003 and  BHS interviewed Faity for the Oral History Collection in 2006 and the full interview is available for listening in the Othmer Library.

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Park Slope Walking Tour

Written by Sady on October 27th, 2009

Park Slope, Brooklyn photo by wallyg on Flickr

photo courtesy wallyg on Flickr

In 2008, BHS published the Park Slope Neighborhood & Architectural History Guide, written by Francis Morrone.  We are currently working on a neighborhood guide about Fort Greene / Clinton Hill, so, stay tuned and please be in touch if there’s something BHS needs to know, someone BHS needs to interview, or you have other ideas for this forthcoming guide.

You can download a Walking Tour of Park Slope here.

And you can listen to voices from Park Slope to accompany the tour:

LIFE OF A BLOCK
 Produced by independent radio producer, Laura Starecheski

The Rubin Family: 3 Generations in Park Slope

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The Rubin Family: Fire on Carroll Street

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TALE OF TWO LIQUOR STORES
Interviews by Corie Trancho-Robie, Columbia Oral History Research Office

Red, White, and Bubbly: Darrin Siegfried

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DeSilva South Brooklyn Liquors: Floyd DeSilva

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Interviews by Sady Sullivan, Brooklyn Historical Society

Park Slope Food Co-Op: Joseph Holtz

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Lesbian Herstory Archives: Maxine Wolfe

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PARK SLOPE 2.O: THE BLOGGERS

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: Louise Crawford

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The Declaration of Co-Dependence: The Blog That Must Not Be Named

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Narrated by Francis Morrone.
Recorded by Laura Starecheski, Sady Sullivan, and Corie Trancho-Robie.
Produced by Laura Starecheski for the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Thank you to everyone who was interviewed, and to the Borough of Manhattan Community College.


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