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Call Number: V1981.287 Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder. Two copy prints, circa 1909, showing the the front porch of 113 Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, home of Dr. John J. Lynch and Jane Francis Lynch, and a portrait of Francis Jane Lynch. Names:
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Call Number: 1978.118 Extent: 0.2 Linear feet, in two folders This collection pertains to Brooklyn P.S. 3, located at Hancock Street and Bedford Avenue. One volume contains a listing of the members of the classes of 1892 and 1893 and the reunions they attended. Also included is correspondence between P.S. 3 alumni regarding class reunions during the 1940s, and a scrapbook containing graduation programs, reunion dinner programs, clippings, and group photographs. Names:
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Call Number: 1981.015 Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder The Charles Turnbull correspondence spans the period 1778 to 1791 and measures 0.1 linear feet. The correspondence consists of a letter copybook containing correspondence between Charles Turnbull and his family members and friends. Turnbull’s letters focus on international commerce between the United States, London, and India. Charles Turnbull (b. circa 1754) served as a captain in the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War and was held as a British prisoner on Long Island. After being paroled, Turnbull became a Major of Artillery in the Continental Army. Following the war, he bought a 150 acre farm in Bedford, Long Island (later part of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn). Turnbull was appointed High Sheriff of Kings County in 1789. Names:
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Call Number: 1979.007 Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder This collection contains the papers of the Stock and Rettberg families who rented a house at 61 Court Street, Brooklyn around 1872. Documents include legal documentation (leases, deeds, bonds, and receipts), the death certificate of Ernst Rettberg, the inventory of the estate of Ernst Rettberg, and a certificate of copyright for Lina Rettberg. The papers span the period 1866 to 1906. Names:
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Call Number: V1978.024 Extent: 0.03 Linear feet, 7 items in one folder. The Stereoscope views of Brooklyn collection is comprised of seven black-and-white stereographs documenting the built environment in Brooklyn, as well as several interior views of a home, circa 1865 to 1915. The collection includes two interior views of a home in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, located at 136 Joralemon Street. Also included is a view of Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights, a view of the statue of Henry Ward Beecher located in Borough Hall Park, a view of a drinking fountain in Prospect Park, an aerial view taken from the top of the 22-story World Building in Brooklyn looking down the Brooklyn Bridge across the East River at the cityscape of Manhattan, and a view looking down the length of the Iron Pier at Coney Island. Places:
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Call Number: 1985.050 Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one record carton. The Hart family papers include correspondence, certificates, obituary notices, wedding invitations, genealogy notes and papers, deeds, insurance records, and securities account books. Also included are a number of photographs, including images of the interior of the Hart residence at 494 Jamaica Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatlands, an image of Edith Linton Hart with her mother and sisters circa 1865, a tintype of the opening of the Union Elevated Railroad in 1888, and images of members of the Hart and Packard families, including Frank and Edith Hart’s son, Ronald Hart, in World War I uniform. Edith Linton married Frank Elsworth Hart in Plymouth Church in 1889 or 1890. He died in 1895, leaving her with two small boys. His father, Frederick D. Hart, was chief engineer of Ridgewood Water Works. Edith then became a music teacher in the public schools and retired in 1921. Names:
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Call Number: V1988.012 Extent: 0.42 Linear feet, in one manuscript box. The Otto Dreschmeyer Brooklyn slides date from 1965 to 1968 and contain 157 items. The collection is composed entirely of color slides taken by Dreschmeyer in Brooklyn, likely using a Hasselblad camera. Slides dated 1965 document the annual Brooklyn Memorial Day parade. Parade images center around Grand Army Plaza, showing the crowds near the Brooklyn Public Library main branch and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, along with parade marchers on Eastern Parkway. Several slides show the John F. Kennedy Memorial at Grand Army Plaza around the time of its unveiling. Slides of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens are also included. Later images in the collection feature docks and beach scenes from Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island in Brooklyn, and Rockaway Point in Queens. Coney Island scenes document the boardwalk and associated attractions such as the Cyclone, Wonder Wheel, and Parachute Jump. Views of Coney Island from the ocean, as well as night views and fireworks displays are also included. Lastly, the collection contains views of Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor from Brooklyn, including the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, South Ferry in Manhattan and the Staten Island Ferry. Otto Dreschmeyer (1896-1983) was a resident of the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens. Names:
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Call Number: V1974.040 Extent: 0.2 Linear feet, in one manuscript box. The Brooklyn Academy of Photography Blizzard of 1888 photograph album dates from 1888 and contains 168 photographs. The album documents the effects of the blizzard in Brooklyn and Manhattan, showing street scenes, snow removal efforts, and different modes of transit hampered by the snowfall. Brooklyn neighborhoods represented in the collection include Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg. The collection also contains images of Prospect Park, Fort Greene Park, the East River, and the Brooklyn terminal of the Wall Street ferry; Manhattan locations include Wall Street and Lower Manhattan. In addition to images of row houses, churches, and businesses buried in the snow, photographs in the collection also depict groups of laborers working to remove snowbanks, as well as horse-drawn streetcars and sleighs on Brooklyn streets. All photographs in the album were taken by members of the Brooklyn Academy of Photography, though no individual photographers are identified. Some photographs in this collection are possibly the work of academy member Adrian Vanderveer Martense, as similar or identical images of the blizzard are also found in the Adrian Vanderveer Martense collection (ARC.191). Names:
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Call Number: 1978.019 Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder The Flatbush Fire Company was established by the Board of Trustees of the town of Flatbush (later the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn) in September 1829. The collection includes a bound minute book, loose minutes of meetings, rules and regulations, and appointments of firemen. Also included is one certificate of appointment to the Fire Department of William Algeo, Jr. Names:
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