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Call Number: 1986.026
Extent: 0.63 Linear feet, in two manuscript boxes.
The St. Ann’s Church collection spans the period 1880 to 1960 and contains yearbooks and news bulletins, along with additional ephemeral literature. Yearbooks span the period 1888 to 1907 with gaps, and include vital information on the Church, such as historical notes, procedures for membership, staff listings, schedules, administrative reports, and reports of the Church’s various organizations and societies. Issues of the Church’s official news bulletin, St. Ann’s Record (also referred to simply as The Record), are included for the period 1888 to 1918. Some of the bulletins are compiled in bound volumes, while others are included as individual publications. Additional ephemera dates from various years within the period 1880 to 1960 and includes programs, brochures, invitations, and pamphlets pertaining to the general history of the Church and its significance in the Brooklyn community, worship services, anniversary celebrations, musical performances, and entertainment festivals. Items also pertain to the operation of various subsidiary organizations within the Church, including the Church School, the Endowment Fund, and the Church’s branch of the Girls’ Friendly Society.
Names:
- St. Ann’s Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Church history
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Anglican church buildings — New York (State) — Kings County
- Anglican church buildings — New York (State) — Kings County — History
- Church anniversaries — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church finance — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church management — New York (State) — Kings County
- Episcopalians — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Annual reports
- Brochures
- Church bulletins
- Church records
- Invitations
- Pamphlets
- Printed ephemera
- Programs (documents)
- Songbooks
- Volumes (documents by form)
- Yearbooks
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Call Number: 1992.003
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
A pamphlet, written in Chinese, from a Buddhist community in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Sunset Park (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Buddhism — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1979.018
Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder
The mission of the Alpha Clerical Union, founded in 1884, was to promote the “spiritual, professional, and social culture and enjoyment of its members.” Limited to a total of nine members, the union consisted of ordained ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. The records span the period 1884 to 1908 and contain the organization’s constitution, bylaws, roll of members, minutes, and financial accounts.
Names:
- Alpha Clerical Union
- Brooklyn Clerical Union
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Presbyterian Church — New York (State) — Kings County
- Religious education of children — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Bylaws (administrative records)
- Constitutions
- Financial records
- Membership lists
- Minutes
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Call Number: V1991.067
Extent: 0.03 Linear feet, 12 items housed in one postcard box.
The Collection of Flatbush postcards consists of 12 black-and-white photographic and picture postcards showing views of streets, houses, churches, schools, and storefronts located in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, circa 1825 to 1905. The postcards include historical information pertaining to the subject depicted on each postcard and are labeled “Town of Flatbush Civic and Cultural Association, Inc.”
Names:
- Flatbush Civic and Cultural Association
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Buildings, structures, etc. — Pictorial works
Subjects:
- Architecture, Domestic — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church buildings — New York (State) — Kings County
- Street photography — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Photographic postcards
- Picture postcards
- Postcards
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Call Number: 1985.102
Extent: 0.63 Linear feet, in one and a half manuscript boxes.
The Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Church Home collection consists primarily of annual reports spanning the years 1883 to 1967, though there are gaps in the reports, most prominently of which are the years 1917 to 1927 and 1931 to 1941. Also included in the collection are three tickets for fundraising events hosted by the Home (1880, 1890, and 1891), three programs for the Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Church Home Annual Fair (1952, 1965, and 1966) and two miscellaneous publications (1888 and 1854). The Methodist Episcopal Church Home for the Aged and Infirm was established for the care of elderly men and women who were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Home, incorporated on May 10, 1883, was located in what is today the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and sought to provide a comfortable residence for the elderly residents. This included room and board, clothing, employment, medical aid, religious privileges, and a respectable burial upon death.
Names:
- Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Church Home
- Thomas, Mercein
Places:
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Buildings, structures, etc.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Religious life and customs
- Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Church committees — Methodists
- Church work with the poor — New York (State) — Kings County
- Group homes for older people — New York (State) — Kings County
- Methodists — New York (State) — Kings County — Charities
- Old age homes — New York (State) — Kings County — Administration
- Religious institutions — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Admission tickets
- Annual reports
- Minutes
- Publications
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Call Number: 1978.128
Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one oversize box.
One volume used to record tax assessments for residents of Brooklyn’s Fourth Ward during the 1840s. Entries detail each resident’s name, street, house number, and total assessment, all written in pencil. The volume was subsequently used as a scrapbook, and only the first sheet of the volume is still legible in regards to the book’s original purpose, containing tax assessments for residents living on Sands Street. Assessment lists on all remaining pages have been pasted over with newspaper clippings of illustrations and copy photographs dating from circa 1860 to 1900 and relating to American military campaigns, history, public transportation, ships and seafaring, historic homes and buildings, fires and fire fighting, churches, recreation, arts, labor, and other subjects and notable events. While several of these clippings relate specifically to Brooklyn and Long Island, many focus on national or international figures and events. While the creator of the scrapbook is not certain, it may have been compiled by Thomas B. Nayes, who lived at 3 Bridge Road in Brooklyn. Nayes’s signature and address are written on the last page of the volume.
Names:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Fourth Ward
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Intellectual life
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- United States
Subjects:
- Arts — New York (State) — Kings County
- Dwellings — New York (State) — Kings County
- Fire fighters — New York (State) — Kings County
- Fire prevention — New York (State) — Kings County
- Fires — New York (State) — Kings County
- Historic buildings — New York (State) — Kings County
- Labor — New York (State) — Kings County
- Military campaigns
- Ocean travel
- Recreation — New York (State) — Kings County
- Religious institutions — New York (State) — Kings County
- Ships
- Tax assessment — New York (State) — Kings County
- Transportation — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1986.023
Extent: 0.83 Linear feet, in two manuscript boxes.
The Episcopal Church in America was organized following the end of the American Revolutionary War when it was forced to separate from the Church of England because, according to English canon law, no clergy could be consecrated without taking an Oath of Allegiance to the English Crown. Under the new church organization in America, the first Anglican services were held in Brooklyn in 1784. The Episcopal Churches of Brooklyn collection spans the years 1832 to 1985 and contains records or materials relating to 16 Episcopal churches that were once or are still located in Brooklyn, N.Y. Included in the collection are church programs, annual reports, membership lists, yearbooks, directories, and newsletters. The yearbooks are of particular interest as they often contain membership lists.
Names:
- Christ Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew (Episcopal) (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Church of St. Mark (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Church of the Atonement (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Church of the Good Shepherd (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Church of the Messiah (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Church of the Nativity (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Church of the Redeemer (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Church of the Reformation (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- St. James Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- St. John’s Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- St. Michael’s Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Church history
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Religious life and customs
Subjects:
- Church anniversaries — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church membership — New York (State) — Kings County
- Episcopal Church — New York (State) — Kings County
- Episcopalians — New York (State) — Kings County
- Religious institutions — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Annual reports
- Directories
- Newsletters
- Programs (documents)
- Yearbooks
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Call Number: 1985.085
Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one oversize box.
This collection consists of one ledger, dated 1874 to 1915 and measuring one linear foot. The ledger contains a membership roll of the Trinity Baptist Church, listing member names, baptism dates, dates of acceptance to and dismissal from the church, and member addresses.
Trinity Baptist Church was established in 1875. During the church’s first two years, congregants met at Ridgewood Hall on Broadway in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 1877, Trinity’s chapel opened, located on Greene Avenue between Patchen Avenue and Broadway in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The majority of the founding congregation was comprised of members from the Willoughby Avenue Baptist Church.
Names:
- Trinity Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Willoughby Avenue Baptist Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Genealogy
Subjects:
- Baptists — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church membership — New York (State) — Kings County
- Church records and registers
- Religious institutions — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 2004.021
Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one oversize box.
One copy of The Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N.Y. from 1683 to 1884 by Henry Reed Stiles, published by W.W. Munsell & Co. in 1884. Though the volume is bound, several pages have come undone from the binding, many of which have been placed in separate folders. Also included is a set of engravings from Stiles’s volume that have been mounted and framed with matting.
Henry Reed Stiles (1832-1909) was a physician who authored a number of historical and genealogical works in the second half of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries, including the 3 volume A History of the City of Brooklyn (1867-1870). Though his medical career took him to places as disparate as Dundee, Scotland and Woodbridge, New Jersey, Stiles lived most of his life in New York City and in Brooklyn. He was a founder of the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society) in 1863 and served as the Society’s first librarian. Further biographical information on Stiles can be found at his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Reed_Stiles.
Names:
- Stiles, 1832-1909
- W.W. Munsell & Co.
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Church history
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Commerce
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History
Subjects:
- Business enterprises — New York (State) — Kings County — History
- Industries — New York (State) — Kings County — History
- Religious institutions — New York (State) — Kings County — History
Types of material:
- Engravings
- Volumes (documents by form)
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Call Number: 1985.119
Extent: 0.2 Linear feet, in one half manuscript box.
The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society of Brooklyn publications date from 1900 to 1934 and are housed in one half manuscript box. The publications include annual reports and a historical sketch published for the Society’s centennial. Annual reports contain treasurers’ reports, statistics for each home, board of managers and committee member names, and narrative descriptions of activities at each of the Society’s institutions. Lists of children under the care of the Society are not included.
Incorporated in 1834, the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society of Brooklyn was founded to house and educate impoverished children and orphans in the then-village of Brooklyn, N.Y. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Society operated two institutions in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn–St. Joseph’s Female Orphan Asylum on Willoughby Avenue, and St. John’s Home on St. Mark’s Avenue–as well as St. Paul’s Industrial School on Congress and Clinton Streets in Cobble Hill, and two extension sites of the St. John’s Home at Coney Island and Hicksville, N.Y. Care of children was financed by society members and Catholic church donations; the homes and school were run by members of Catholic religious orders, such as the Sisters of Charity, Sisters of St. Joseph, and Franciscan Brothers. While the Society fell under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Brooklyn, established in 1853, it appears to have operated independently of other Diocese charities until the mid-20th century.
Names:
- Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society of Brooklyn
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social conditions
Subjects:
- Catholic Church — Charities
- Charities — New York (State) — Kings County
- Children — Institutional care
- Children — New York (State) — Kings County
- Orphanages — New York (State) — Kings County
- Orphans — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Annual reports
- Publications
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