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Extent: 83 bound volumes.
This weekly magazine chronicles the social and economic life of Brooklyn from 1890 to 1931. Looking through the issues one can see in the early issues the importance of bicycles, but at the turn of the century the emphasis turns toward the automobile. Other topics of the magazine include fashion trends, advertisements by Brooklyn businesses, real estate developments in up-and-coming neighborhoods like Flatbush and Ditmas Park, photographs of the then new construction in those areas, documentation of the move from Brownstone Brooklyn into as yet undeveloped Brooklyn.
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Call Number: 1987.007
Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one oversize manuscript box
The Coney Island Jockey Club was founded during the late 19th century by Leonard Jerome and William Kissam Vanderbilt. During its early existence the club held horse races at the Propect Park fairgrounds, and in 1880 the club built the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, where its races were held thereafter. The collection spans the period 1889 to 1899 and contains the club’s founding resolution; programs broadsides; and ephemera, such as passes, badges, and tickets from races organized by the club.
Names:
Places:
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Clubs — New York (State) — Kings County
- Horse racing — New York (State) — Kings County
- Sports — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Articles of incorporation.
- Programs (documents)
- Tickets
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Call Number: V1987.001
Extent: 0.02 Linear feet, five items housed in one folder.
The Brooklyn Dodgers photographs consist of five black-and-white photographic prints dating from 1949 to 1956. The photographs are attributed to the news agency United Press International (UPI). Included are two photographs of Jackie Robinson–one of Robinson sitting alone in the dugout and the other capturing Robinson stealing home against catcher Yogi Berra during the opening game of the 1955 World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees. The collection also includes a photographic portrait of pitcher Hank Casey; a team photograph of the Dodgers in front of Borough Hall in Brooklyn after winning the National League pennant in 1949; and a photograph of Dodgers’ fans waiting on line to buy tickets for the World Series after the Dodgers won the National League pennant in 1956.
Names:
- United Press International
- Casey, Hugh Thomas, 1913-1951
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- African American baseball players
- Baseball fans — New York (State) — New York
- Baseball players — United States
- Baseball teams — New York (State) — Kings County
- Baseball — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Photographs
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Call Number: V1974.036
Extent: 1.34 Linear feet, in one oversize box and one folder.
The Prospect Park exhibit photography collection contains 33 items and ranges in date from 1877 to circa 1975, with the bulk of materials dating from 1889 to 1897. The collection includes oversize photographs, prints, stereographs, and postcards. Items in the collection show scenes of Prospect Park, such as landscapes, statues, arches, bridges, lakes, and recreational activities, namely bicycling and ice skating. Also included is a photograph of Colored School No. 2 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Items in the collection were part of a Brooklyn Historical Society exhibit on Prospect Park in the late 1980s.
Names:
- Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Landscape photography — New York (State) — Kings County
- Outdoor recreation
- Parks — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Photographs
- Picture postcards
- Stereographs
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Call Number: 1978.110
Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder.
Paper napkin used at the refreshment period following the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in Brooklyn in 1909. The napkin depicts a Japanese garden, consistent with the Japanese theme of the celebration.
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration was an event given in 1909 to commemorate the achievements of Henry Hudson, the English explorer credited with the European discovery in 1609 of the river now known as the Hudson River, and Robert Fulton, the engineer credited with the invention of the first commercially successful steamboat. The main pageant began at the Soldiers and Sailors’ Memorial Arch in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Plaza and continued on Eastern Parkway to Buffalo Avenue. A major attraction of the pageant was the participation of the U.S. Navy Atlantic Fleet.
Names:
- Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
Subjects:
- Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909
- Parades — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Memorabilia
- Napkins (culinary textile)
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Call Number: V1991.004
Extent: 0.03 Linear feet, two items housed in one folder.
The Los Angeles Dodgers centennial press kit photographs consist of two modern black-and-white photographic prints. One photograph is a group portrait of the 1890 Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, while the other photograph consists of four panels showing views of four different baseball fields that were home to the Brooklyn Dodgers or the Los Angeles Dodgers. A view of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn is included. Though the photographic prints date from circa 1990, the original images from which the prints were reproduced date from circa 1890 to 1990.
Names:
- Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
Subjects:
- Aerial photographs
- Baseball fields
- Baseball teams — New York (State) — Kings County
- Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.)
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Group portraits
- Photographs
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Call Number: V1987.012
Extent: 0.03 Linear feet, 10 items contained in one folder.
The Chuck Connors photographs consist of 10 black-and-white photographic prints spanning the period circa 1938 to 1987. All photographs are 8 x 10 portraits that document Connors career as a professional baseball player and basketball player on teams such as the Bay Ridge Celtics (Brooklyn), Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Angels, Montreal Royals, and Boston Celtics, as well as his career as a character actor. The most recent photograph, dating from 1987, is a portrait autographed by Connors to Brooklyn Historical Society.
Actor and professional athlete Chuck Connors was born Kevin Joseph Connors in Brooklyn, N.Y. on April 10, 1921. Gifted athletically, Connors won a scholarship to attend Adelphi Academy, a private college preparatory high school in Brooklyn, and graduated in 1939. Concurrently, Connors played for the Bay Ridge Celtics, a local Brooklyn baseball team. After attending Seton Hall University in New Jersey for a short time, Connors left to enlist in the U.S. Army during WWII. After serving in the Army, Connors pursued a professional athletic career, first joining the newly established Boston Celtics basketball team in 1946 before leaving basketball for baseball. Connors played for minor league teams and farms teams until he was brought up to the major league to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949. A first baseman, Connors only played one game for the Dodgers. In 1951, Connors went to the Chicago Cubs where he played 66 games as first baseman for the Cubs. In 1952, Connors returned to the minor league, playing for the Cubs farm team, the Los Angeles Angels. It was while playing for the Angels that Connors was “discovered” by a movie studio employee and was signed to do his first film. From 1952 to 1991, Connors spent nearly 40 years as a character actor in both film and television, including his first role in George Cukor’s film Pat and Mike starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and his lead role in the television western, The Rifleman, from 1958 to 1963. Connors died in Los Angeles in 1991.
Names:
- Connors, Chuck, 1921-1992
- Bay Ridge Celtics (Baseball team)
- Boston Celtics (Basketball team)
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
- Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)
- Los Angeles Angels (Baseball team)
- Montreal Royals (Baseball team)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Actors — United States
- Baseball players — United States
- Baseball teams — New York (State) — Kings County
- Baseball — New York (State) — Kings County
- Basketball players — United States
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Photographs
- Portraits
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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: V1987.011
Extent: 0.16 Linear feet, 82 items contained in one folder.
The Crown Publishers photographs of Brooklyn is comprised of 82 black-and-white photographic prints that document Brooklyn from the period circa 1920 to 1960. The images where included in When Brooklyn Was the World by Elliot Willensky, originally published by Crown Publishers in 1986. Images of buildings, people, transportation, neighborhoods, public events, recreation, and parks are included in the collection, as are images of Coney Island, and the New York Naval Shipyard (now the Brooklyn Navy Yard), among others.
Crown Publishers is a New York City based publishing company that was established in 1933.
Names:
- Crown Publishers
- New York Naval Shipyard
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Buildings, structures, etc. — Pictorial works
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History — 20th century
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs — 20th century
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Neighborhoods — New York (State) — Kings County
- Street photography — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Photographs
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Call Number: V1987.051
Extent: 1.4 Linear feet, in one folder and one oversize box.
The Brooklyn aerial views and 1939 World’s Fair photographs date from 1939 to circa 1980 and contain 25 items. Photographic formats include black-and-white prints and contact sheets. Images in the collection show the 1939 World’s Fair, based in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, with photographs of theatrical productions, corporate exhibition buildings, and the fair grounds. The collection also includes aerial photographs of Downtown Brooklyn and the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, taken from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building in Fort Greene.
Names:
- New York World’s Fair (1939-1940)
- Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y. : Hanson Place)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
- Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.) — Social life and customs — 20th century
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Aerial photographs
- Corporations, American — Exhibitions
- Fairs — New York (State) — New York — Design and construction
- Theater — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Contact sheets
- Photographs
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