Archives & Library Special Collections
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Call Number: 1977.616
Extent: 0.04 Linear feet, in one folder
This collection consists of vouchers issued by the 32nd Infantry Regiment of the New York State National Guard to deliver helmets and fatigue caps from J.C.F. Deecken of New York City to various members. The documents are dated 1877. The 32nd Regiment was headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Names:
- New York (State). National Guard. Infantry Regiment, 32nd
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
Types of material:
- Military records
- Vouchers
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Call Number: 1986.030
Extent: 0.31 Linear feet, in three quarters of one manuscript box.
Although the doctrines of Unitarianism come from 17th century Europe, Unitarianism in America during the 19th century was influenced by several American theologians including Boston based preacher William Ellery Channing (1780-1842). The first Unitarian gathering was held in Brooklyn in 1833. Between 1835 and 1900 numerous Unitarian societies and churches were established in Brooklyn. The Unitarian Churches of Brooklyn collection contains records of five Unitarian churches located in Brooklyn, N.Y. The collection spans the years 1860 to 1958 and includes annual reports, registers, yearbooks, directories, sermons, programs, and various publications.
Names:
- All Souls Universalist Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Flatbush Unitarian Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Second Unitarian Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Third Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Church history
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Religious life and customs
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Clinton Hill (New York, N.Y.)
- Cobble Hill (New York, N.Y.)
- Prospect Park South (New York, N.Y.)
- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Christian life — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church anniversaries — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church finance — New York (State) — Kings County
- Committees
- Religious institutions — New York (State) — Kings County
- Unitarian Churches — History
- Unitarianism — New York (State) — Kings County — History
Types of material:
- Annual reports
- Church records
- Directories
- Manuals (instructional materials)
- Membership lists
- Programs (documents)
- Publications
- Yearbooks
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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:
- 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
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Call Number: ARC.218
Extent: 0.13 Linear feet, in one manuscript box
The collection includes correspondence received by Henry Reed Stiles in response to his requests for historical information in connection with his writing of A History of the City of Brooklyn. The bulk of the correspondence concerns religious institutions and congregations in Brooklyn, N.Y., including the areas of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Greenpoint. Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Jewish, Lutheran, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Reformed Dutch, and Universalist congregations are represented in the correspondence. A small number of institutions other than religious are represented in the collection. Among these is correspondence from the African-American activist and educator William J. Wilson concerning the history of Brooklyn’s Colored Public School Number 1. Also found here are financial data from Green-Wood Cemetery (1839-1868) and historical information about the Brooklyn Academy of Eclectic Medicine. The collection also includes, among other material, Jonathan Greenleaf’s descriptive recollections of 1840s East Brooklyn (the Wallabout area) and its subsequent growth to 1860 and correspondence from Joseph Gardner Swift, the Chief Engineer of the Army responsible for the fortifications built at New York and Brooklyn in 1814.
Names:
- Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909
- Atlantic Yacht Club
- Brooklyn Academy of Eclectic Medicine (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Eclectic Dispensary (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Church history
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Description and travel
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History — War of 1812
- Bushwick (New York, N.Y.) — Church history
- Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.) — Church history
- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.) — Church history
Subjects:
- African Americans — Education — New York (State) — Kings County
- Baptists — New York (State) — Kings County
- Congregational churches — New York (State) — Kings County
- Episcopal Church — New York (State) — Kings County
- Jews — New York (State) — Kings County
- Lutheran Church — New York (State) — Kings County
- Methodist Episcopal Church — New York (State) — Kings County
- Presbyterian Church — New York (State) — Kings County
- Reformed Church — New York (State) — Kings County
- Sabbath schools — New York (State) — Kings County
- Sunday schools — New York (State) — Kings County
- Universalist churches — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Joseph Arthur Burr, Jr. composition book, 1860-1866. 0.8 linear feet in one folder.
Call number: 1973.108
Joseph Arthur Burr, Jr. (1850-1915) was a lawyer who served as Corporation Counsel for the City of Brooklyn from 1896 to 1898 and, from 1905 until his death, as a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court. This collection consists of a composition book kept by Burr as a youth attending the Williamsburgh Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. (1860-1864) and the Wilton Academy in Connecticut (1864-1866). Burr’s book includes short descriptions of places and events in and around Brooklyn and New York. Among the subjects of these brief descriptions are the Japanese government’s 1860 delegation in New York, Blackwell’s Island (now Roosevelt Island), the 1864 Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair, local menageries, the brickyard at Verplanck’s Point on the Hudson River, the launch of the frigate Re D’Italia from the Webb Shipyard, the Morgan Iron Works, and anniversary celebrations of the Williamsburg Sunday School Union. Several entries are influenced by the progression of the Civil War and include reflections on some aspect of it, particularly the closing events of the war and Lincoln’s assassination.
Access Points
Personal Names
Burr, J. Arthur, (Joseph Arthur)
Corporate Names
Williamsburgh Institute (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Wilton Academy (Wilton, Conn.)
Geographic Names
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Description and travel
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
New York (N.Y.) — Description and travel
Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
Wilton (Conn.)
Subjects
Lawyers — New York (State) — Kings County
Students — New York (State) — Kings County
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Pfizer Brooklyn Oral History, 2007. Sound recordings: 27 wav files
2008.029
The Brooklyn Historical Society and Pfizer, Inc., initiated the Pfizer Brooklyn Oral History project in June 2007. 25 in-depth interviews were conducted with past and current employees. The Pfizer pharmaceutical company was founded in Brooklyn in 1849, and in 2007 the company planned to close this founding plant location over the next two years (by 2009).
Recordings of these interviews may be listened to in the library. Transcripts of the interviews may be read in the library.
American Sugar Refining Company Records, 1876-1951 (bulk 1907-1951). 1 linear foot.
2008.042
The American Sugar Refining Company operated a refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for nearly 150 years and employed, at its height, over 4,500 people at a time. Founded in 1807 as Wm. and F.C. Havemeyer, the company went through many name and ownership changes, eventually incorporating as American Sugar Refining Company in 1891, and is today known as Domino Foods, Inc. This collection includes annual reports describing the business operations of the firm and publications featuring photographs and stories about some of those workers.
Subjects
- American Sugar Refining Company
- Havemeyer, Frederick C., 1807-1891
- Havemeyer, Henry Osborne, 1847-1907
- Havemeyer, Horace, 1886-1956
- Havemeyer family
- Sugar trade
- Food supply
- Sugar
- Sugar factories
- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
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