Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Historical Society

	Past Exhibits 10/2003 to Present Artist and Artifact: Re\|Visioning Brooklyn's Past Beauty Suspended: The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Turns Forty Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary: Suspended Over Time Brooklyn Redrawn Brooklyn Utopias? Brooklyn Works: 400 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn Business Evolution of a Borough Counter/Culture Dodgers Do It!: Celebrating Brooklyn's 1955 Big Win! Drumbeats in Brooklyn From Synagogue to Church Ferry Tales : Brooklyn's Steamboat Service Gowanus Transformations: Celebrating 150 Years of Manufacturing Here Was New York : Twin Towers in Memorial Images Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field Landmark and Legacy: Brooklyn Heights and the Preservation Movement in America In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn's Vietnam Veterans It Happened In Brooklyn		The Legend of Martense's Lane: Folklore in Dutch Colonial Brooklyn Lost in Transition:South Brooklyn, Williamsburg & Coney Island Living and Learning: Chinese Immigration, Restriction & Community in Brooklyn, 1850 to Present Mother Goose in an Air-Ship: McLoughlin Bros. 19th Century Children's Books from the Liman Collection No Jheri Curls & No Drugs: A David Lee Photo Exhibition Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Danckaerts Painting Brooklyn Stories of Immigration and Survival Photos from "Gateway to Nations Pow Wow" in Brooklyn Ratzer Map Reflections on Community Development: Stories from Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Sacred Hearts Slavery in New York: Brooklyn Stories Secret Lives of Streets Tivoli: A Place We Call Home Up From Flames Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Works by Lewis Hine 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall: Brewing in Brooklyn

Past Exhibits October 2003 to Present

Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

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Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field is an exhibition curated by local high school students in BHS' Exhibition Laboratory program. Through archives, photos and oral histories, the exhibition explores the connection between Ebbets Field, the Dodgers and the Brooklyn community. The exhibit features the history of the team and its fans by digging into BHS’ rich Dodgers collection that includes baseball cards, photographs of the field, ticket stubs, uniforms, seats from Ebbets Field, autographed baseballs, scorebooks from the 19th century, team photos and the famous Dodger Banner from their 1955 World Series win. The exhibition will include humorous and emotional stories from fans and employees of Ebbets Field, recorded by students and BHS staff during the semester. Home Base recalls the thrill and excitement of attending games at Ebbets Field at the height of the Dodgers era.

Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field is curated by high school students from Brooklyn Technical High School, Cobble Hill School of American Studies, The Packer Collegiate Institute and Saint Ann’s School as part of the Brooklyn Historical Society's Exhibition Laboratory (Ex Lab) after-school museum studies program. Ex Lab introduces high school students to the art of exhibition development: conducting research, selecting artifacts, writing text and working with scholars and curators to understand how to communicate ideas through an exhibition.

Exhibition dates: June 3, 2010 - extended to April 1, 2012

Exhibition Laboratory is made possible through the generous funding of Timothy Bradley and Martha A. & Robert S. Rubin. Additional funding is provided by The Pine Tree Foundation of New York, Astoria Federal Savings and the Ferriday Fund Charitable Trust. Special thanks to Brooklyn Technical High School, Cobble Hill School of American Studies, The Packer Collegiate Institute and Saint Ann’s School.

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