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Call Number: V1987.006
Extent: 0.06 Linear feet, 16 items in one folder.
The George Zlobin photograph collection contains 16 items dating from circa 1920 to 1940. Included in the collection are 15 black-and-white photographic prints of New York City related images and one black-and-white copy print of a rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge showing cars, delivery trucks, and pedestrians crossing the bridge heading towards Manhattan. The delineator of the rendering is C.A. Schultz. The photographic prints include several images of the Brooklyn Bridge, one view of the Manhattan Bridge, a view of the RMS Queen Mary in New York City waters, two images of Fiorello La Guardia, attending a public event– one with his son Eric and the other with his wife Maria, daughter Jean, and son Eric, possibly aboard the Queen Mary, and one image of a radio address on WNYC radio by a group of unidentified men, also possibly aboard the Queen Mary. Finally, the collection documents the Rockaway Beach Excursion Line, a ferry line that ran along Sheepshead Bay and Jamaica Bay with stops in Queens and Brooklyn. Images of ferry landing piers at Roxbury, Rockaway Point, and Breezy Point in Queens are included, as is a ferry house that was located at Emmons Avenue and Kenmore Place in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. Images of many of the ferries are also included.
Names:
- La Guardia, Fiorello H., 1882-1947
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Bridges — New York (State) — Kings County
- Ferries — New York (State) — New York
- Piers — New York (State) — New York
- Ships
- Transportation — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Photographs
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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:
- Dreschmeyer, Otto
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Brooklyn Public Library
- Staten Island Ferry
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Eastern Parkway (New York, N.Y.)
- Grand Army Plaza (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Rockaway Beach (New York, N.Y.)
- Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Beaches — New York (State) — New York
- Docks — New York (State) — New York
- Ferries — New York (State) — New York
- Fireworks — New York (State) — New York
- Parades — New York (State) — New York
- Recreation — New York (State) — New York
- Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch (New York, N.Y.)
Types of material:
- Color slides
- Photographs
- Slides (photographs)
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Call Number: 1978.125
Extent: 3.8 Linear feet, in nine manuscript boxes and one oversize box.
The Independent Civic Association of Sheepshead Bay and the Brooklyn Civic Council records include minutes, correspondence, reports, clippings, scrapbooks, graphic materials, and additional ephemera reflecting the activities of both organizations, as well as the history and development of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Sheepshead Bay and Marine Park. The materials were donated by Joseph B. Milgram, who was an officer of the Independent Civic Association of Sheepshead Bay and the Brooklyn Civic Council. Materials date from 1925 to 1975, with some undated items.
Names:
- Brooklyn Civic Council (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Borough Gas Company
- Floyd Bennett Field (New York, N.Y.)
- Gas Consumers’ League (New York, N.Y.)
- Independent Civic Association of Sheepshead Bay, Inc. (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.). Citizens’ Transit Committee
- New York City Housing Authority
- Utilities Consumers’ League (New York, N.Y.)
- Milgram, Joseph B.
Places:
- Belt Parkway (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Politics and government
- Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.)
- Marine Park (New York, N.Y.)
- Marine Park (New York, N.Y.) — History
- Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.)
- Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.) — History
Subjects:
- I.C.A. record
- Citizens’ associations — New York (State) — Kings County
- City planning — New York (State) — Kings County
- Civic improvement — New York (State) — Kings County
- Community development — New York (State) — Kings County
- Housing — New York (State) — Kings County
- Neighborhood government — New York (State) — Kings County
- Parkways — New York (State) — Kings County
- Public utilities — New York (State) — Kings County
- Transportation — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Brochures
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Maps
- Minutes
- Pamphlets
- Photographs
- Reports
- Scrapbooks
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Call Number: V1986.001
Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in two folders.
This collection contains 14 mounted 19th-century photographs, dated 1897 to 1898. Images in the collection show landscapes and rural scenes in Brooklyn, New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, N.Y. Brooklyn locales include Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island, and Prospect Park; New York Harbor and the Narrows are also included.
Names:
Places:
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
- Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Lakes
- Landscape photography — New York (State) — Kings County
- Landscape photography — New York (State) — New York
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