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Call Number: V1986.023
Extent: 0.04 Linear feet, in one folder.
The Souvenir of Coney Island, Brighton and Manhattan beaches viewbook was published by the Home Life Publishing Company in 1904. The viewbook consists of 30 pages of black-and-white images of Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Manhattan Beach which are adjacent oceanfront neighborhoods located on the eastern portion of Brooklyn. Views of Dreamland, Luna Park, the boardwalk and beach at Coney Island, and Surf Avenue are included, among others. The original softcover of the viewbook has been recovered with a hardcover, library binding and the page size is 5 x 7.5. Digital versions of the images from the viewbook are available via the image database located in the library.
Names:
- Home Life Publishing Co.
- Dreamland (New York, N.Y.)
- Luna Park (New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Amusement parks — Pictorial works
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Amusement parks — New York (State) — Kings County
- Recreation — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: V1974.023
Extent: 0.2 Linear feet, in one manuscript box.
One volume, titled Art Work of Brooklyn, New York, dated 1896. The volume contains 85 prints with scenes and buildings of Brooklyn, N.Y., as well as captions detailing the images and the history of Brooklyn. Prints in the volume depict parks and monuments such as Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, clubs, churches, banks, schools, and municipal buildings in Brooklyn. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Red Hook, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, Brighton Beach, and Coney Island are included. In addition to street scenes and skyline views from the Brooklyn Bridge, the volume also contains waterfront views showing the New York Harbor, New York Naval Shipyard (also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard), Gowanus Bay, beaches, docks, and basins.
Names:
- Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
- New York Naval Shipyard
Places:
- Bay Ridge (New York, N.Y)
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
- Brighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Clinton Hill (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
- Fort Hamilton (New York, N.Y.)
- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Prospect Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
- Red Hook (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Banks and banking — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church buildings — New York (State) — Kings County
- Clubs — New York (State) — Kings County
- Docks — New York (State) — Kings County
- Monuments — New York (State) — Kings County
- Municipal government — New York (State) — Kings County
- Parks — New York (State) — Kings County
- Schools — New York (State) — Kings County
- Street photography — New York (State) — Kings County
- Waterfronts — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (prints on paper)
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Call Number: V1989.025
Extent: 0.03 Linear feet, five items contained in one folder.
The Lawrence Stelter Brooklyn photograph collection consists of six black-and-white photographic prints dating from circa 1930 to 1939. The collection includes two photographs showing houses on Beverley Road in Brooklyn; a photograph showing two unidentified children standing outside of a large house; a photograph of a boy on roller skates holding a hockey stick and standing in front of a car on a sidewalk; a photograph of two unidentified adults standing on a residential sidewalk in front a parked car; and one 8″ x 10″ print of an unidentified woman sitting on a bench located along the boardwalk in front of the Brighton Hotel in Brighton Beach. It is not known if the people depicted in the photographs are related.
Names:
Places:
- Beverely Road (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Brighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Dwellings — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Photographs
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