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Portrait Collection, 1700-2000 25 boxes (10.42 linear feet) Photographs and printed matter, including reproductions of drawings, engravings, and paintings, featuring people from Brooklyn and beyond ranging from the 18th to 20th centuries. Organized alphabetically by last name of the person featured in the portrait. Subjects:
Hart - Linton Family Collection, 1865-1949. 1 record carton. ArMs 1985.050 (also 2006.026). Edith Linton married Frank Elsworth Hart at Plymouth Church in 1889 or 1890. Hart’s father, Frederick D. Hart, was chief engineer of Ridgewood Water Works. Frank and Edith had two children, both boys, and maintained residence on Jamaica Avenue in Flatlands. Frank died in 1895, and Edith then became a music teacher in the public schools and retired in 1921. The Hart-Linton family materials constitute an evocative picture of c.1900 family life. The collection includes correspondence, certificates, obituary notices, wedding invitations, genealogy notes and papers, deeds and insurance, securities account books, and a number of images. Patterson Family Collection, 1847-1956. 1.25 linear feet (3 document boxes, 1 oversize folder, 4 custom boxes). AccNo. 1980.013 The Pattersons were a multi-generational family living in Brooklyn Heights, and its members worked in a variety of fields. William Patterson (c.1821-1890/1891) worked in construction, and his son, Stephen (1855-1905), worked as a lawyer, as did Stephen’s daughter, May (c.1879-1925). May Patterson holds the distinction of being the first female Assistant District Attorney to argue a case in a United States court. Stephen’s other daughter, Annie Louise (1883-1970), married Alexander Lassen Jones (c.1881-?), a theater manager and producer. The Patterson Family Collection is comprised of the papers and photographs saved by the Patterson Family between 1847 and 1956. The collection includes financial documents, legal documents, correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, post cards, and cartes de visite. The content of the collections varies based on date as different generations saved different types of material. Access Points: Personal Names Subjects Geographical Headings Junior League of Brooklyn Records, 1910-2002 (Bulk dates: 1930-1999). 41 cubic feet, 30 records boxes, 11 oversize boxes. ArMs 2005.064, 2007.037 The first Junior League took shape in New York City in 1901, when women were finally able to take on greater responsibilities toward their communities. Young women were encouraged to actively volunteer and to find useful outlets for their skills and interests. The success of the New York League led to the creation of the thirty Leagues established in six U.S. regions by 1921. The Brooklyn Junior League formed in 1910 as a response to social and health problems facing certain Brooklyn communities, and presently remains an organization of women dedicated to voluntarism, social advocacy, and improving communities through the leadership and charitable action of trained members. The collection consists of a variety of organizational records including meeting minutes, membership files, annual reports, board manuals, documents pertaining to the Junior League of Brooklyn’s relationship with the Court Appointed Special Advocates Program (CASA) of New York as well as the Association of Junior Leagues International, and printed material. In addition, a large volume of scrapbooks, photographs, committee and volunteer activity records illustrate the League’s involvement in recognizing and dealing with social issues of inequity and economic hardship. Access Points: Personal Names Corporate Names Subject Headings John D. Morrell Photograph Collection, 1957-1974, bulk 1958-1963. 2, 675 photographs (15 linear feet)
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Thomas N. Schroth and Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. Brooklyn Eagle Collection 1841-1976 (Bulk dates: 1952-1955). 4 boxes, 3.5 cubic feet. ArMs 1989.007 This collection contains the records belonging to the last managing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle (formerly Brooklyn Daily Eagle), Thomas N. Schroth, the son of its last publisher and editor, Frank D. Schroth. While the inclusive dates span from 1841 to 1976, the bulk of Thomas Schroth’s records cover the final days of the Eagle (1952-1955), the period leading up to and culminating in a Newspaper Guild strike that led to the closing of the newspaper. The materials in the collection include scrapbooks, bound first and centennial issues, photographs, and Eagle publications such as pamphlets and booklets. The labor struggle is documented through correspondence, internal memos, clippings, Newspaper Guild publications, Guild meeting bulletins and union contracts. A smaller portion of the collection is comprised of the papers of Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., first cousin to Thomas Schroth, and contains the notes for his doctoral dissertation in history on the Eagle, subsequently published as The Eagle and Brooklyn (1974). Raymond’s papers cover his correspondence with publishers, his notes, early drafts of the dissertation and portions of drafts of the book as well as reviews and correspondence with respondents to an author’s query he had published. Access Points:
Cranston Family Papers, 1846-1923. 4 boxes (3 legal manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box), 1.75 cubic feet. ArMs 1994.013 The Cranston Family collection comprises 1.75 cubic feet of letters, clippings, books, certificates, and ephemera from three generations of the Cranston and Morehouse families of Brooklyn, N.Y. The majority of the collection relates to the lives of Alfred Cranston and his wife Elizabeth H. Petford Cranston. The collection also contains letters, books, and ephemera relating to the Cranstons’ daughter Ella Cranston, to the Morehouse family (from which a daughter, Emma Louise, married the Cranston’s son, Alfred Petford Cranston), and to their relatives, the Oliver and Bellows families. Alfred Cranston was a volunteer firefighter and fought in the Civil War with the 14th Regiment on the New York State Militia, known popularly as “the Fighting Fourteenth”, and later superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Building in Manhattan, home of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company. Elizabeth H. Petford Cranston was active in the Society of the Wives and Daughters of the 14th Regiment War Veterans, serving as the Society’s president from 1893 to 1915. She also took part in numerous church and charity activities. Access Points:
The Sgt. Arthur A. Hayward- New York National Guard 13th Regiment Collection, 1857-1951. 5 Boxes (4 document boxes and 1 oversize box), 2.6 cubic feet. ArMs 2006.027 Arthur A. Hayward enlisted in the New York National Guard at the 13th Coast Artillery Armory on June 15, 1882 and rose in rank from corporal to color sergeant by 1889, and then from sergeant to master sergeant to sergeant major by 1922. Sgt. Major Hayward served in the 13th Regiment for forty-four years until his retirement in 1926, and was auditor and secretary of the 13th Regiment Veterans Association. Mr. Hayward had a wife, Jennie, and the couple had four children. The collection consists of documents kept by Sgt. Hayward during his military career as sergeant-major. These records include receipts of expenses incurred, service records of officers, military certificates, letters on military dealings, and articles on the 13th Regiment. Records and documents pertaining to the 13th Regiment Veteran Association are also included. The collection also contains Hayward’s personal records, including letters written by him, his family, and acquaintances of the Haywards; business documents of the Haywards; and newspaper articles saved by Arthur A. Hayward. Finally, the collection includes 13th Regiment military photos and personal photos of Arthur A. Hayward and his family. Access Points:
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