Archives & Library Special Collections
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Call Number: V1987.006
Extent: 0.06 Linear feet, 16 items in one folder.
The George Zlobin photograph collection contains 16 items dating from circa 1920 to 1940. Included in the collection are 15 black-and-white photographic prints of New York City related images and one black-and-white copy print of a rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge showing cars, delivery trucks, and pedestrians crossing the bridge heading towards Manhattan. The delineator of the rendering is C.A. Schultz. The photographic prints include several images of the Brooklyn Bridge, one view of the Manhattan Bridge, a view of the RMS Queen Mary in New York City waters, two images of Fiorello La Guardia, attending a public event– one with his son Eric and the other with his wife Maria, daughter Jean, and son Eric, possibly aboard the Queen Mary, and one image of a radio address on WNYC radio by a group of unidentified men, also possibly aboard the Queen Mary. Finally, the collection documents the Rockaway Beach Excursion Line, a ferry line that ran along Sheepshead Bay and Jamaica Bay with stops in Queens and Brooklyn. Images of ferry landing piers at Roxbury, Rockaway Point, and Breezy Point in Queens are included, as is a ferry house that was located at Emmons Avenue and Kenmore Place in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. Images of many of the ferries are also included.
Names:
- La Guardia, Fiorello H., 1882-1947
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Bridges — New York (State) — Kings County
- Ferries — New York (State) — New York
- Piers — New York (State) — New York
- Ships
- Transportation — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Photographs
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Call Number: V1987.039
Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder.
Five photographs, dated circa 1920s, showing the Luna Park amuseument park in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, as well as trains for Norfolk Southern and Pennsylvania Railroad.
Names:
- Luna Park (New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Amusement parks — New York (State) — Kings County
- Railroad companies — United States
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1992.024
Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder
The writings included in this collection were submitted by Daniel J. Kern to the Brooklyn Historical Society over a course of nearly two years. They cover a wide array of topics pertaining to Brooklyn history as experienced and observed through the eyes of Kern. Topics covered include Coney Island; Steeplechase and Luna Parks; the silent movie industry of Brooklyn and some of its stars; ice deliveries from the Knickerbocker Ice Company; Brooklyn’s Trolley Cars; Castle Clinton; various ethnic group interactions; and some Jewish history. Throughout the pieces, Mr. Kern reminisces about businesses and places he knew as a child and compares the Brooklyn of his childhood to the Brooklyn of the early 1980s.
Daniel J. Kern was born and raised in the South Greenfield area of Brooklyn (currently known as the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn). Kerns was born in 1905, and began sending in his remembrances of Brooklyn to the Brooklyn Historical Society in 1986. After moving from Brooklyn to Hendersonville, N.C. in 1978, Kern died on November 2, 1987.
Names:
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Midwood (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Jews — New York (State) — Kings County
- Motion picture industry — New York (State) — Kings County
- Transportation — New York (State) — Kings County
- Trolley cars
Types of material:
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Call Number: V1974.033
Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder.
The In Transit exhibit photograph collection consists of four photographs dating from 1887 to 1916. The photographs were part of the Brooklyn Historical Society’s In Transit exhibit during the Fall of 1985. Images in this collection show a railroad car from the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad Company as well as elevated railroad tracks and streetcars in Downtown Brooklyn.
Names:
- Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad Company
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Cable cars (Streetcars) — New York (State) — Kings County
- Local transit — New York (State) — Kings County
- Railroad companies — New York (State) — Kings County
- Railroads, Elevated — New York (State) — Kings County
- Street-railroads — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1978.195
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
An indenture for the purchase of land, boats, licenses, and other rights of the Long Island Ferry Company by the Brooklyn Ferry Company.
Names:
- Brooklyn Ferry Company
- Long Island Ferry Company
- Kuhnhast
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Ferries — New York (State) — Kings County
- Transportation — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: V1987.010
Extent: 0.05 Linear feet, 22 items contained in one folder.
The Percy Varian photographs consists of 22 black-and-white photographic prints depicting street scenes of the Downtown neighborhood of Brooklyn. The photographs were taken by Percy Varian in June of 1941. The subject of the photographs is primarily the elevated railroad that ran along Fulton Street from 1888 to June 1940. Many of the photographs show the dismantling and removal of the Fulton Street Line elevated railroad (or el) which took place in June of 1941. The photographs were all taken during the day from street level and show pedestrians, cars, streets, buildings, and businesses, as well as the elevated train tracks and stations. As Varian worked on Fulton Street at the department store Abraham & Straus, many or the businesses along the Fulton Street shopping corridor are prominent sub-themes of many the photographs. There are also several photographs of the “el” removal celebration that was held outside of Borough Hall.
Names:
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Buildings, structures, etc. — Pictorial works
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Streets — Pictorial works
- Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Fulton Street (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Railroads, Elevated — New York (State) — Kings County
- Street photography — New York (State) — Kings County
- Transportation — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Photographs
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Call Number: 1991.019
Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder
The collection contains six proposals and one letter of recommendation which were submitted to the Common Council of Brooklyn in 1801 for the operation of the Catherine Street Ferry for three years beginning on May 1, 1801.
Names:
- Catherine and Main Street Ferry Company (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Common Council
- Apfelbaum, Charles
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Politics and government — 19th century
Subjects:
- Ferries — New York (State) — Kings County
- Ferries — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
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Call Number: ARC.279
Extent: 0.8 Linear feet, in two manuscript boxes.
The Terhune and Wyckoff families papers (1747-1932) include documents of two prominent families, affiliated through marriage, from Gravesend in Kings County, New York (part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn after 1898). John Terhune (1767-1842) played a significant role in the early development of Coney Island as a resort location, and the collection includes some documents on that subject and on a dispute over whether to incorporate the town of Gravesend. The bulk of the collection, dating from the first half of the nineteenth century and likely compiled principally in connection with the administration of the estates of various Terhunes and Wyckoffs, includes bills, receipts, promissory notes, inventories, deeds, indentures, court filings, and other financial and legal documents. The collection holds several individual items of interest, including two letters commenting on the use of personal slanders as a tactic in political campaigns, a document related to the founding of the Agricultural Society of Kings County, six cartes-de-visite, bills of sale and a will referring to enslaved African-Americans, indentured servitude agreements, and a promissory note (1796) from Aaron Burr to Albert Terhune. Other names of Gravesend residents appearing frequently in the collection include Bennet, Emmans, Lake, Lott, Ryder, and Stillwell.
Names:
- Terhune family
- Emmans family
- Lott family
- Stillwell family
- Terhune, Albert
- Terhune, John
- Wyckoff family
- Coney Island House (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend and Coney Island Bridge and Road Company
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.) — Genealogy
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Kings County
- Auctions — New York (State) — Kings County
- Court records — New York (State) — Kings County
- Executors and administrators — New York — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Indentured servants — New York (State) — New York
- Inventories of decedents’ estates — New York (State) — New York
- Legal documents — New York (State) — Kings County
- Locomotive engineers
- Public officers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Railroads — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Wills — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Estate inventories.
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Promissory notes
- Receipts (financial records)
- Slave bills of sale
- Tax records
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Call Number: ARC.263
Extent: 94.55 Linear feet, in 7 manuscript boxes and 85 flat boxes
The Pierrepont family papers (1761-1918) document the intersection of commercial, civic and personal interests across three generations of one of the most prominent and influential families of nineteenth century Brooklyn, New York. The bulk of the collection concerns the business dealings of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont from 1838 to his death in 1888. This especially includes an extensive set of accounting and transactional records concerning the Pierrepont Stores, the family’s warehouse on Brooklyn’s East River waterfront; these include records of ships arriving at the Stores and their cargoes delivered. Additionally, there are substantive correspondence, legal documents and other materials concerning the Union Ferry Company, of which Henry was an officer. In addition to commerce and shipping, a major theme of the collection is that of land acquisition in Brooklyn Heights and at the adjacent waterfront in the early nineteenth century, and the development of that property over the course of the century. Included in the collection are correspondence, deeds, indentures, leases, accounting records, diaries, maps, invoices, receipts, business proposals, legal filings, clippings, and historical and genealogical manuscripts.
Names:
- Pierrepont family
- Pierpont, Hez. B., 1768-1838
- Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 1808-1888
- Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 1845-1911
- Pierrepont, John Jay, 1849-1923
- Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company
- Covered Tube Cable Railway Co. (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Long Island Historical Society
- Nassau Cable Railway Company of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Pierrepont Stores (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Union Ferry Company (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Maps
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- East River (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Bonded warehouses and goods — New York (State) — New York
- Business enterprises — New York (State) — New York
- Ferries — New York (State) — New York
- Imports — New York (State) — New York
- Landowners — New York (State) — New York
- Real estate development — New York (State) — New York
- Real property — Ownership — New York (State) — New York
- Shipping — New York (State) — New York
- Waterfronts — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Account books
- Cadastral maps
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Daybooks
- Deeds
- Diaries
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Journals (accounts)
- Ledgers (account books)
- Manuscript maps
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Scrapbooks
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Call Number: ARC.145
Extent: 14.25 Linear feet, in 2 record cartons, 7 document boxes, and 14 oversize or odd-size boxes
The Lefferts family papers contain documents created and collected by members of the Lefferts family, a Brooklyn family of Dutch origin that played a prominent role in the city’s politics, society, and development. The collection also contains records created and collected by the stewards of the Lefferts Historic House Museum in relation to the Lefferts family and the house’s history. The documents span from the 1650s to the 1970s and include those created by members of the Lefferts family in Brooklyn (particularly in the town of Flatbush) as well as members of the family that branched out into other parts of America including Ohio and Illinois. The collection covers a variety of subjects including the development of Flatbush, the Lefferts family role in the political, economic, religious, and social life of Flatbush and Brooklyn, colonial life, slavery, and more. The documents include personal papers and correspondence of the family members, papers related to maintenance of their farm and businesses, genealogical records of the family, and photographs and other graphic materials of family members and the Lefferts house. The collection also contains related clippings, some maps, and an assortment of books either owned by or related to the Lefferts family and Flatbush. There are some documents related to the maintenance of the Lefferts Historic House and some documents and graphic materials collected over time by the stewards of the house.
Names:
- Lefferts family
- Cortelyou, John, 1772-1855
- Hegeman family
- Lefferts, Eliza, 1831-1865
- Lefferts, Femmetie Hegemann, 1760-1847
- Lefferts, Jacobus L.
- Lefferts, James, 1800-1862
- Lefferts, John, 1719-1776
- Lefferts, John, 1785-1829
- Lefferts, John, 1814-1877
- Lefferts, John, 1826-1893
- Lefferts, Leffert, 1774-1847
- Lefferts, Maria Lott, 1786-1865
- Lefferts, Peter
- Lott family
- Schenck, Sarah Lefferts
- Vanderbilt, Gertrude Lefferts, b. 1824.
- Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Coney Island Railway Company
- Brooklyn, Jamaica, and Flatbush Turnpike Company
- Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church (Flatbush, New York, N.Y.)
- Flatbush Plank Road Company
- Gravesend and Coney Island Bridge and Road Company
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Maps
- Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.) — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
- Long Island (N.Y.) — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
- New York (N.Y.) — Maps.
Subjects:
- Deeds — New York (State) — Kings County
- Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863
- Farms — New York (State) — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776
- Real property — New York (State) — New York — Maps
- Roads — New York (State) — Kings County
- Slavery — New York (State) — Kings County
- Transportation — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Account books
- Bible
- Birth records
- Cadastral maps
- Cookbooks
- Daguerreotypes (photographs)
- Death records
- Engravings
- Financial records
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Land titles — New York (State) — Kings County
- Manuscript maps
- Marriage records
- Photographs
- Picture postcards
- Receipts (financial records)
- Slave bills of sale
- Tintypes (prints)
- Wills
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