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8th Avenue - Sunset Park Oral History, 1993-1994. Sound recordings: 38 cassettes (90 minutes each)
1994.007
In 1993-1994, the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Chinatown History Museum (now Museum of the Chinese in America), collected interviews regarding Brooklyn’s Chinese community in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. 28 interviews were conducted in English, Mandarin, or Cantonese. Narrators include recent Chinese immigrants as well as people of Italian and Puerto Rican heritage who live in the neighborhood.
Transcripts of these interviews may be read in the library. Some but not all of the recordings of these interviews may be listened to in the library; we anticipate the full collection will be available for researchers to listen to in Fall 2010.
Brooklyn Ephemera Collection (1814-1998). 19 manuscript boxes and 2 oversize boxes (9.8 cubic feet).
The Brooklyn Ephemera Collection contains materials of mixed provenance accumulated over decades by the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society). It is comprised of 12 series: Businesses, Churches, Civic Organizations and Celebrations, Clubs, Entertainment, Military, Schools, Sports, Transportation, Miscellaneous, Comic Books, and Calendars/Oversized Materials. The materials relate to a variety of Brooklyn-based institutions and events spanning a period of time from 1814 to 1998. Examples of the encompassed materials include correspondence, announcements, pamphlets, special events programs and notices, note papers, tickets, newspaper clippings, trade cards, ads, receipts, invoices, tour maps and information, postcards and certificates.
Access Points:
Personal and Corporate Names
Pierrepont, John Jay, 1849-1911
Grant, Ulysses S. [Ulysses Simpson], 1822-1885
Adelphi College
Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Commissioners of Prospect Park
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Park Commissioners
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Athenaeum
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Club (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Brooklyn Dodgers (Football team)
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn Tabernacle (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Union Gas Company
Erasmus Hall High School
First Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Historic Districts Council (New York, N.Y.)
National Railway Historical Society
New York City Transit Authority
New York Naval Ship Yard
New York Transit Museum
St. Francis College (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Subject Headings
African Americans
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Baseball - New York (State) - New York
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - religious life and customs
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - social life and customs
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
Brownstone - New York (State) - New York
Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Trust Company Building (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Songs and music.
Armed Forces - New York (State) - New York
Clubs - New York (State) - New York
Entertainment events - New York (State) - New York
Racing - New York (State) - New York
Railroads - New York (State) - New York
Sports - New York (State) - New York
Theater - New York (State) - New York
Williamsburg Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
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Records of Puerto Rican Oral History Project,1960-1984 (Bulk dates, 1973-1975). 4 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic feet.
ArMS 1976.001
The Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society) initiated the Puerto Rican Oral History Project in 1973. Over seventy-five interviews were conducted documenting the experiences of Brooklyn residents who arrived from Puerto Rico between 1917 and 1940. This collection includes recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted primarily between 1973 and 1975. Also included are newspaper clippings, brochures, booklets about Brooklyn’s Puerto Rican community, and administrative information on how the project was developed, carried out, and evaluated.
Transcripts of the interviews can be read in the library. Recordings are not currently available to researchers; we anticipate that recordings will be available for researchers to listen to in the library in the Spring of 2010.
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The Records of the Vasa Order of America, 1906-1974. 8 boxes (5 manuscript boxes, 1 record carton, 1 miscellaneous box, 1 folder in oversize), 3.75 cubic feet.
ArMs 1986.009, 1990.003, 2005.015
This collection consists of documents and ephemera from a number of Brooklyn- and Bronx-based member lodges of the Vasa Order of America, the largest Swedish-American fraternal organization in the United States. The bulk of the collection is comprised of minutes of lodge meetings, lodge membership records, yearly and twice-yearly financial reports from the individual lodges, and ephemera, covering the period 1906 to 1982, with the bulk of the material spanning the 1920’s to the 1970’s. The collection also contains a limited amount of lodge correspondence, correspondence and records from subsidiary Vasa organizations, and constitutions and by-laws. Earlier materials are in Swedish that gradually switched to English around mid-twentieth century, and provide a glimpse into the process of lodge and member assimilation.
The collection also includes a small amount of material from other Swedish-American organizations-especially Agne Lodge #101 of the Independent Order of Vikings, which shared the same meeting house. These non-Vasa materials have been given their own series within the collection.
Access Points:
- Vasa Order of America
- Grand Lodge, Vasa Order of the United States of America
- Independent Order of Vikings
- Fraternal organizations - New York (State) New York.
- Swedish Americans - History
- Swedish Americans - New York (State) New York - Social conditions
- Scandinavian Americans - New York (State)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - History 20th century
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Social life and customs 20th century
- Bylaws
- Constitutions
- Correspondence
- Minutes
- Printed ephemera
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Records of the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council of Churches, 1840-1979 (Bulk Dates: 1895-1974). 28 document boxes and 8 custom ledger boxes (15.5 cubic feet).
ArMs 1980.006 (also containing 1980.007)
The Records of the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council of Churches trace the history of the Brooklyn Division and its numerous predecessors over a period of nearly one hundred and fifty years. The records in this collection date back to the Brooklyn City Tract Society, the earliest predecessor of the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council of Churches. The organizations documented in this collection trace the history of Protestantism and missionary work in Brooklyn well into the twentieth century. In their missionary and evangelical work, the organizations represented here involved themselves in numerous aspects of Brooklyn’s growth as a city, promoting immigrant acculturation, aiding in social reform, supporting education, and facilitating interracial relations.
The bulk of this collection consists of office files dating from 1950 to 1974; however, much of the material in this collection concerns missionary work at the turn of the nineteenth century and the collection dates back to 1840. Included in the collection are minutes, subject files, publications, financial records, and newspaper clippings. The collection has been arranged functionally according to seven series: Related Organizations, Minutes and Reports, Financial Records, Publications, Subject Files, Scrapbooks, and Photographs.
Access Points:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)- Religious life and customs
- Church and social problems- New York (State)- New York
- Church charities
- Church management
- Church Unity
- Clergy- New York (N.Y.)
- Evangelicalism and Christian Union
- Evangelistic work
- Interdenominational Cooperation
- Missions- Educational Work
- Missions- Societies, etc.
- Prisons- Missions and charities
- Protestant Churches- Missions
- Protestant Churches- Relations
- Protestant Reformation
- Protestantism
- Religious Education of Children
- Religious newspapers and periodicals
- Sunday Schools
- Theology
- United States- Religion- 19th century
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Saretta Hicks Papers, 1963-1965. 4 boxes (2 cubic feet).
AccNo 1978.170 and 1980.003
This collection consists of papers gathered and, in many cases, written by author Saretta G. Hicks. The material includes her notes and research for an unfinished book about Lady Deborah Moody titled Dangerous Woman: A Biography of Deborah, Lady Moody of Coney Island. Lady Moody is best known as the founder of the town of Gravesend in what was then New Amsterdam and later became a part of Brooklyn, New York.
The collection was donated to the Brooklyn Historical Society in two parts (1978.170 and 1980.003). Each accession number is treated as a separate series. The first of these, 1978.170, contains Ms. Hicks’ research and related correspondence. The second part, 1980.003, contains the manuscript, chapter outlines and indexes. The collection contains undated materials and is organized by topic. Of particular note is the inclusion of copies of original documents pertaining to Lady Moody’s family history. There is also a four page typed transcript of Gravesend town meeting records from 1656.
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The Recreation Rooms and Settlement Collection, 1905-1991, 2.5 linear feet
ArMs 1994.014
The Recreation Rooms and Settlement Collection documents the work of the settlement, originally established to provide educational and recreational opportunities for Jewish immigrant women, from its early years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan through its current activity in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. While material in the collection spans from 1905 to 1991, the bulk of the records are from the period 1953-1991. Included in the collection are: board of directors minutes and appended administrative reports, by-laws, annual reports, program files, executive director correspondence, flyers, news clippings, photoprints, fundraising records, budgets, histories and brochures.
Subjects
- Brooklyn Council for Social Planning
- Christadora House
- Citizen’s Housing Council of New York
- Clara de Hirsch Literary Club
- Council of Jewish Women (U.S.)
- East Side Tenants League
- Educational Alliance (New York, N.Y.)
- Emergency Committee to Save Public Housing
- Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York
- Lower East Side Neighborhood Association
- Mobilization for Youth
- National Jewish Welfare Board
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society (U.S.)
- New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission
- New York City Housing Authority
- Recreation Rooms and Settlement
- Recreation Rooms and Settlement
- Rivington Neighborhood Association (New York, N.Y.)
- United States. Works Progress Administration
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)–Charities
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
- Adler, Felix, 1851-1933
- Berger, Graenum
- Davis, Gloria
- Koch, Ed, 1924-
- Community centers–New York (State)–New York
- Jews–Charities
- Social settlements–United States
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