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

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logo This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks, and documents, visitors will meet a diverse range of residents from Brooklyn's earliest Native American settlements, to the men and women who fought in the Revolutionary War on Brooklyn's shores, to the Brooklynites who worked to abolish slavery, the immigrants from all over the world who made Brooklyn home, and the women who kept America going by working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during WWII.

It Happened In Brooklyn: Curriculum Materials

BHS offers educators free supplementary curriculum materials related to our It Happened In Brooklyn exhibit.

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It Happened in Brooklyn has been made possible by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and Astoria Federal Savings. The Brooklyn Historical Society is supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Community Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts.


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