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:
- Brooklyn Academy of Photography
Places:
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
- Boerum Hill (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- East River (N.Y.)
- Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Park Slope (New York, N.Y.)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Blizzards — Atlantic States
- Church buildings — New York (State) — Kings County
- Local transit — New York (State) — Kings County
- Row houses — New York (State) — Kings County
- Snow removal — New York (State) — Kings County
- Street photography — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Photograph albums
- Photographs