Archives & Library Special Collections
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Call Number: 1978.185
Extent: 0.25 linear feet, in four folders
The Southold, N.Y. register book spans the period 1683 to 1850 and measures 0.25 linear feet. Entries in the register cover genealogical information, indenture, bond and deed information, records of town information, manumission of slaves notices, town meeting minutes, and voting records with results. Also included are the Southhold Academy bylaws and constitution, First Universalist Church in Southold bylaws and constitution, and records of the Commissioner of the highway of the town of Southold. The register book includes an index and was prepared by successive town historians throughout the mid-20th century.
Names:
- Southold (N.Y.)
- First Unitarian Church (Southold, N.Y.)
- Southold Academy
Places:
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- Southold (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Genealogy
- Slavery — New York (State) — Long Island
- Unitarian Churches — New York (State) — Long Island
Types of material:
- Bonds (legal records)
- Bylaws (administrative records)
- Constitutions
- Deeds
- Indentures
- Indexes (reference sources)
- Minutes
- Registers (lists)
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Call Number: V1987.001
Extent: 0.02 Linear feet, five items housed in one folder.
The Brooklyn Dodgers photographs consist of five black-and-white photographic prints dating from 1949 to 1956. The photographs are attributed to the news agency United Press International (UPI). Included are two photographs of Jackie Robinson–one of Robinson sitting alone in the dugout and the other capturing Robinson stealing home against catcher Yogi Berra during the opening game of the 1955 World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees. The collection also includes a photographic portrait of pitcher Hank Casey; a team photograph of the Dodgers in front of Borough Hall in Brooklyn after winning the National League pennant in 1949; and a photograph of Dodgers’ fans waiting on line to buy tickets for the World Series after the Dodgers won the National League pennant in 1956.
Names:
- United Press International
- Casey, Hugh Thomas, 1913-1951
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- African American baseball players
- Baseball fans — New York (State) — New York
- Baseball players — United States
- Baseball teams — New York (State) — Kings County
- Baseball — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Photographs
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Call Number: V1974.036
Extent: 1.34 Linear feet, in one oversize box and one folder.
The Prospect Park exhibit photography collection contains 33 items and ranges in date from 1877 to circa 1975, with the bulk of materials dating from 1889 to 1897. The collection includes oversize photographs, prints, stereographs, and postcards. Items in the collection show scenes of Prospect Park, such as landscapes, statues, arches, bridges, lakes, and recreational activities, namely bicycling and ice skating. Also included is a photograph of Colored School No. 2 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Items in the collection were part of a Brooklyn Historical Society exhibit on Prospect Park in the late 1980s.
Names:
- Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Landscape photography — New York (State) — Kings County
- Outdoor recreation
- Parks — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Photographs
- Picture postcards
- Stereographs
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Call Number: V1989.022
Extent: 0.03 Linear feet, 17 items housed in on film slides binder.
The Bob Adelman photographs of Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrations is comprised of 17 black-and-white slides made in the late 1980s from original photographic prints dating from circa 1962. The photographs pertain to several civil rights demonstrations organized by the Brooklyn chapter of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) including “Operation Clean Sweep,” a demonstration addressing discriminatory sanitation policies in New York City; a demonstration in front of Ebinger’s Bakery in Brooklyn in regards to its discriminatory hiring practices; a sit-in at the Board of Education calling for the end of de facto segregated schools and equal access to quality education; and a sleep-in at a “model home” for newly constructed housing located in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn in regards to discriminatory rental and buying practices. The collection includes photographs of street protests of the aforementioned civil rights actions; a photograph of Arnold Goldwag being arrested during a demonstration; several photographs in which Oliver Leeds, Marjorie Leeds, and some of the Leeds children are involved in demonstrations; and group portraits of other unidentified local civil rights activists. Although unnamed, the collection includes a photograph of the first African-American person hired by Ebinger’s Bakery. All photographs are attributed to Bob Adelman.
Names:
- Adelman, Bob
- Goldwag, Arnold
- Leeds, Marjorie
- Leeds, Oliver
- Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter
- Congress of Racial Equality
Places:
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social conditions — 20th century
- Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Midwood (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- African Americans — Civil rights — New York (State) — New York
- African Americans — Education — New York (State) — New York
- African Americans — Employment — New York (State) — New York
- Civil disobedience — New York (State) — New York
- Civil rights demonstrations — New York (State) — New York
- Civil rights movements — New York (State) — New York
- Civil rights workers — New York (State) — New York
- De facto school segregation — New York (State) — New York
- Discrimination in employment — New York (State) — New York
- Discrimination in housing — New York (State) — New York
- Race discrimination — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Photographs
- Slides (photographs)
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Call Number: 1978.010
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
This collection contains bills of sale for the purchase of slaves in Queens County, N.Y. from 1751 to 1793, prior to the abolition of slavery in New York State. Three of the six bills of sale document the purchase of slaves by the Wyckoff Family of Queens County, as well as John Van Wyck.
Names:
- Van Wyck family
- Wyckoff family
Places:
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Queens County
- Slavery — New York (State) — Queens County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1978.157
Extent: 0.3 linear feet, in eleven folders, including one oversize
The Teunis G. Bergen collection of Van Brunt family genealogy papers spans the period 1770 to 1881 and measures 0.3 linear feet. The papers include letters, legal documents, and genealogical notes and transcriptions concerning the Van Brunt family, collected by Teunis G. Bergen. Much of the material concerns Kings County (N.Y.), especially New Utrecht (now part of Brooklyn), but New Jersey and other locales also appear in the genealogical documents. Many of the letters are from John Van Brunt (1802-1880) of Englewood, N.J.; these typically concern genealogy and family history, but some also include his perspectives on politics, the development of Englewood, and local issues such as a controversy over racially segregated schools. The legal documents include deeds, wills, and slave bills of sale.
Names:
- Bergen, Teunis G., 1806-1881
- Van Brunt family
- Van Brunt, John
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Englewood (N.J.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- African Americans
- Families — New York (State) — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Slavery — New York (State) — Kings County
- Wills — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Cadastral maps
- Correspondence
- Family papers
- Genealogical tables
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Legal documents
- Manuscript maps
- Research notes
- Slave bills of sale
- Transcripts
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Call Number: ARC.281
Extent: 2.4 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and one flat box
The Anita Lott Cruikshank collection (circa 1677-1892) consists of documents concerning various families, principally from Kings County (N.Y.) and principally concerning land and estate transactions. It is surmised that the materials were accumulated by various members of the Lott family, especially Jeremiah (1776-1861) and John A. Lott (1806-1878), of Flatbush (now part of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City) in the course of various private, public and professional activities. Many documents either concern a Lott as a party to the transaction or indicate a Lott performing an official responsibility or acting as estate executor, attorney, or in some other role as advocate. Accordingly, though many of the papers concern the Lott family, most of the collection concerns other families as well. The most important example of this is a set of papers concerning the Ludlow-Willink family of New York and Flatbush. These papers include documents regarding the commercial interests of Dutch merchant John Abraham Willink (died 1852) and his estate. Willink was married to Cornelia Ann Ludlow (1788-1865); documents from her family include estate, property, and professional papers for various Ludlows and related family ancestors, among these Charles Crooke and Anthony Rutgers of New York City. In addition to the towns of Kings County, documents in the collection refer to matters in New York City, Dutchess County (N.Y.), and Middlesex County (N.J.), among other places. Among the other surnames represented in the collection are Brownejohn, Cortelyou, Couwenhoven, Lefferts, Lloyd, Stryker, Van Brunt, Van der Bilt, and Vanderveer.
Names:
- Cruikshank, Anita Lott
- Cortelyou family
- Couwenhoven family
- Lefferts family
- Lott family
- Lott, Jeremiah, 1776-1861
- Lott, John A., 1806-1878
- Ludlow family
- Van Brunt family
- Vanderbilt family
- Vanderveer family
- Willink family
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- County courts — New York (State) — Kings County
- Decedents’ estates — New York (State)
- Decedents’ estates — New York (State) — Kings County
- Families — New York (State) — Dutchess County
- Genealogy
- Lawyers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Dutchess County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Bonds (legal records)
- Cadastral maps
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Estate inventories.
- Family papers
- Indentures
- Leases
- Manuscript maps
- Receipts (financial records)
- Slave bills of sale
- Wills
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Call Number: ARC.280
Extent: 2.8 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and two flat boxes
Francis Skillman (1817-circa 1897) of Roslyn, Nassau County (part of Queens County in the nineteenth century), on Long Island, N.Y. was a Justice of the Peace from 1851-1876 in North Hempstead, a genealogist who published a family history of the Skillmans in 1892, and a farmer. The Francis Skillman papers include materials from each of these aspects of Skillman’s life. These materials include correspondence, a genealogy manuscript and the research underlying the manuscript, journals, a docket book, property agreements, and miscellaneous historical documents. The journals principally concern Skillman’s farming activities and his hiring of help. The correspondence can generally be categorized as: letters from the Civil War years to Skillman from Christian Walthert, a private in the 15th New York Regiment of Engineers; letters from Skillman to his brother principally concerning family matters; and responses to Skillman’s genealogical inquiries. Genealogical information on the Schenck and Onderdonk families can also be found in the collection.
Names:
- Skillman, Francis
- Onderdonk family
- Schenck family
- Skillman family
- United States. Army. New York Engineers Regiment, 15th (1861-1865)
Places:
- Nassau County (N.Y.)
- North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)
- Queens County (N.Y.)
- Roslyn (N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Long Island
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Long Island
- County courts — New York (State) — Long Island
- Crime — New York (State) — Long Island
- Family life
- Farmers — New York (State) — Long Island
- Genealogy
- Judges — New York (State) — Long Island
- Real property — New York (State) — Long Island
Types of material:
- Cadastral maps
- Correspondence
- dockets
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Journals (accounts)
- Manuscript maps
- Manuscripts (document genre)
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Call Number: ARC.279
Extent: 0.8 Linear feet, in two manuscript boxes.
The Terhune and Wyckoff families papers (1747-1932) include documents of two prominent families, affiliated through marriage, from Gravesend in Kings County, New York (part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn after 1898). John Terhune (1767-1842) played a significant role in the early development of Coney Island as a resort location, and the collection includes some documents on that subject and on a dispute over whether to incorporate the town of Gravesend. The bulk of the collection, dating from the first half of the nineteenth century and likely compiled principally in connection with the administration of the estates of various Terhunes and Wyckoffs, includes bills, receipts, promissory notes, inventories, deeds, indentures, court filings, and other financial and legal documents. The collection holds several individual items of interest, including two letters commenting on the use of personal slanders as a tactic in political campaigns, a document related to the founding of the Agricultural Society of Kings County, six cartes-de-visite, bills of sale and a will referring to enslaved African-Americans, indentured servitude agreements, and a promissory note (1796) from Aaron Burr to Albert Terhune. Other names of Gravesend residents appearing frequently in the collection include Bennet, Emmans, Lake, Lott, Ryder, and Stillwell.
Names:
- Terhune family
- Emmans family
- Lott family
- Stillwell family
- Terhune, Albert
- Terhune, John
- Wyckoff family
- Coney Island House (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend and Coney Island Bridge and Road Company
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.) — Genealogy
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Kings County
- Auctions — New York (State) — Kings County
- Court records — New York (State) — Kings County
- Executors and administrators — New York — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Indentured servants — New York (State) — New York
- Inventories of decedents’ estates — New York (State) — New York
- Legal documents — New York (State) — Kings County
- Locomotive engineers
- Public officers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Railroads — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Wills — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Estate inventories.
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Promissory notes
- Receipts (financial records)
- Slave bills of sale
- Tax records
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Call Number: 1974.114
Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one flat box
John C. Bergen (1826-1907) was a farmer on Bergen’s Island in Flatlands, Kings County, New York (now part of Brooklyn). His papers include pages from his diary (1846-1848, 1854); an account book with daybook and other transactional entries (1827-1835, 1865-1894); and Bergen’s 1866 federal tax return. The diary entries focus principally on daily farming activities, hunting (including at Barren Island), weather, and bringing goods to market in Brooklyn and other Kings County towns, with references to illnesses, participation in town meetings, Bible readings, and other aspects of daily rural life. A farmhand named John J. who appears frequently in the diary’s 1840s entries is, judging from an 1854 entry, an African-American.
Names:
- Bergen, John C.
- Bergen family
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatlands (New York, N.Y.) — Climate
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Kings County
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Kings County
- Farmers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Farms — New York (State) — Kings County
- Markets — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Account books
- Daybooks
- Diaries
- Journals (accounts)
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