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Call Number: 1977.659 Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder An advertisement for the sale of wood lots in Woodbury, Long Island, to take place on October 28, 1865. Names:
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Call Number: 2009.014 Extent: 2.0 Linear feet, in one record carton and one oversize folder. This is a collection of items created by Miklos Suba, all depicting barber shop poles in Brooklyn. Items include 12 scale models of barbershop poles and corresponding sketches and working drawings for the models; sketches and renderings without corresponding models; and newspaper clippings about barbershops and barbershop poles in Brooklyn. Names:
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Call Number: 1981.009 Extent: 1.7 Linear feet, in four manuscript boxes The business records of Steven M. Blake span the period 1831 to 1847 and measure 1.7 linear feet. The records consist of sales journals, ledgers, a daybook, inventories, and invoices documenting his store in New York City. Sales journals show the amount and character of sales. Some books include indexes to names of customers. Steven M. Blake was a New York businessman who lived on Hicks Street in Brooklyn. Though the exact type of store he owned is not specified in the records, based on the types of products sold it appears to have been a dry goods store. Names:
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Call Number: 1990.025 Extent: 0.2 Linear feet, in three folders This collection contains several items related to the New York Daily News workers strike of 1990, including clippings, publications, union bulletins, fliers, and pamphlets. Places:
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Call Number: ARC.281 Extent: 2.4 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and one flat box The Anita Lott Cruikshank collection (circa 1677-1892) consists of documents concerning various families, principally from Kings County (N.Y.) and principally concerning land and estate transactions. It is surmised that the materials were accumulated by various members of the Lott family, especially Jeremiah (1776-1861) and John A. Lott (1806-1878), of Flatbush (now part of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City) in the course of various private, public and professional activities. Many documents either concern a Lott as a party to the transaction or indicate a Lott performing an official responsibility or acting as estate executor, attorney, or in some other role as advocate. Accordingly, though many of the papers concern the Lott family, most of the collection concerns other families as well. The most important example of this is a set of papers concerning the Ludlow-Willink family of New York and Flatbush. These papers include documents regarding the commercial interests of Dutch merchant John Abraham Willink (died 1852) and his estate. Willink was married to Cornelia Ann Ludlow (1788-1865); documents from her family include estate, property, and professional papers for various Ludlows and related family ancestors, among these Charles Crooke and Anthony Rutgers of New York City. In addition to the towns of Kings County, documents in the collection refer to matters in New York City, Dutchess County (N.Y.), and Middlesex County (N.J.), among other places. Among the other surnames represented in the collection are Brownejohn, Cortelyou, Couwenhoven, Lefferts, Lloyd, Stryker, Van Brunt, Van der Bilt, and Vanderveer. Names:
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Call Number: 1974.114 Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one flat box John C. Bergen (1826-1907) was a farmer on Bergen’s Island in Flatlands, Kings County, New York (now part of Brooklyn). His papers include pages from his diary (1846-1848, 1854); an account book with daybook and other transactional entries (1827-1835, 1865-1894); and Bergen’s 1866 federal tax return. The diary entries focus principally on daily farming activities, hunting (including at Barren Island), weather, and bringing goods to market in Brooklyn and other Kings County towns, with references to illnesses, participation in town meetings, Bible readings, and other aspects of daily rural life. A farmhand named John J. who appears frequently in the diary’s 1840s entries is, judging from an 1854 entry, an African-American. Names:
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Call Number: 1974.117 Extent: 2.4 Linear feet, in two oversize boxes. Six ledgers of Henry Lloyd, recording financial transactions and accounts throughout the period 1703 to 1744. The volumes include four waste books (i.e., day books), one invoice book, and a journal that duplicates much of the information contained in the other volumes. Names:
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Brooklyn Navy Yard Oral History, 2006-2011. Sound recordings: 47 digital audio WAV files (80hrs) 2010.003 In partnership with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, Brooklyn Historical Society collected interviews with men and women who worked in or around the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The majority of the interviews are with people who worked in the Yard during WWII. The narrators discuss growing up in New York, their work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, their relationships with others in the Yard, gender relations and transportation to and from work. Many narrators bring up issues of ethnicity, race, and religion at the Yard or in their neighborhoods. Several narrators describe the launching of the U.S.S. Missouri battleship and recall in detail their daily tasks at the Yard as welders, office workers, and ship fitters. While interviews focus primarily on experiences in and around the Yard, many narrators also discuss their lives after the Navy Yard, relating stories about their careers, dating and marriage, children, social activities, living conditions, and changes in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Recordings of these interviews and accompanying transcripts are available in the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Othmer Library and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92. Brooklyn Navy Yard Oral History, 1987-1989. Sound recordings: 12 digital audio WAV files (6hr, 23min) 1995.005 In 1987-1989, Brooklyn Historical Society interviewed 10 people who worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during WWII. Interviews were conducted by Benjamin Filene and Diane Esses and focus on working conditions and the experiences of women doing nontraditional labor such as welding and shipfitting. These interviews were recorded on cassette tape and have been digitized to make them available for listening. Recordings of these interviews and accompanying transcripts are available in the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Othmer Library and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92.
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