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Call Number: 1992.021
Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one oversize box.
The Antonia Denis collection spans the period 1948 to 1983 and consists of correspondence, administrative documents, financial records, photocopied newspaper articles, calling cards, certificates, newsletters, pamphlets, and other ephemera relating to Denis’s work with the cultural organizations La Casa de Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Pioneers Parade, as well as her political activism and work with the Betances Democratic Club and other organizations. A small amount of papers pertaining to Denis’s personal life are also included. Several newspaper articles, while not relating directly to Denis, contain information on the general political, social, and cultural affairs of Brooklyn and New York City’s Latino community. Over half the materials in the collection are written in Spanish, while the remaining items are in English.
Antonia Denis, a social and political activist, arrived in Brooklyn, N.Y. from Baja Vega, Puerto Rico during World War I. She soon became a major figure in several Brooklyn-based organizations, including La Casa de Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rican Pioneers Parade, and the Betances Democratic Club. These organizations advocated for political and social equality, celebrated Puerto Rican history and culture, and administered anti-poverty, cultural, and educational programs for Brooklyn’s Puerto Rican community.
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Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Economic conditions
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Intellectual life
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Politics and government
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social conditions
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
Subjects:
- Community activists — New York (State) — Kings County
- Education — New York (State) — Kings County
- Housing — New York (State) — Kings County
- Puerto Rican women — Political activity — New York (State) — Kings County
- Puerto Ricans — Education — New York (State) — Kings County
- Puerto Ricans — Housing — New York (State) — Kings County
- Puerto Ricans — New York (State) — Kings County — Economic conditions
- Puerto Ricans — New York (State) — Kings County — Ethnic identity
- Puerto Ricans — New York (State) — Kings County — Intellectual life
- Puerto Ricans — New York (State) — Kings County — Politics and government
- Puerto Ricans — New York (State) — Kings County — Social conditions
- Puerto Ricans — New York (State) — Kings County — Social life and customs
- Puerto Ricans — New York (State) — Kings County — Societies, etc.
Types of material:
- Administrative records
- Articles
- Certificates
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Printed ephemera
- Visiting cards
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Call Number: 1981.010
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
Gertrude Vanderbilt-Smith’s diary is housed in a single handwritten volume and spans the period 1855-1864. The diary is divided into two portions, the first of which contains written accounts of Smith’s visits to friends in varying parts of New York State. These friends include Brooklyn figures such as John Ditmars, Henry Ditmars, George Fox, the Peet family, Vandervoorts, Lotts, and Schoonmakers.
Names:
- Vanderbilt-Smith, Gertrude
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
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Call Number: 1985.013
Extent: 1.34 Linear feet, in one oversize box.
Approximately 30 issues of The New York Woman magazine, spanning September 16, 1936 to March 31, 1937.
Names:
- New York Woman, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- New York woman (Magazine)
- Women — New York (State) — New York
- Women — New York (State) — New York — Social conditions
- Women’s periodicals, American — New York (State) — New York
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Call Number: V1989.003
Extent: 0.06 Linear feet, 6 items contained in two folders.
The Pilgrim Laundry photographs consists of six black-and-white photographs (five of which are mounted) showing interior views of the Brooklyn-based Pilgrim Laundry, dating from circa 1910. The photographs show laundry workers (primarily women) on the job using industrial laundry machinery of the period. There is also one view of a cook in the company kitchen preparing food for workers.
Names:
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Windsor Terrace (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Laundry industry — New York (State) — Kings County
- Laundry machinery
- Laundry workers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Women — Employment — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Interior views
- Photographs
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Call Number: 1981.006
Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder.
This collection contains a poem written by Genevieve Earle to her nephew, Joseph K. Lane, on his 21st birthday, and one photograph of Earle standing on the steps of a home in Tupper Lake, N.Y.
Genevieve B. Earle (1883-1956) was head of the Brooklyn branch of the League of Women Voters, and was the first woman elected to the New York City Council, where she served as minority leader.
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Places:
Subjects:
- Women city council members — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
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Call Number: 2000.034
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
This collection consists of eight letters written by Lucy Maria Tappan Bowen to her husband, Henry Bowen, and her sister, Susan Barney. Lucy Maria Tappan Bowen is more well-known as one of the women with whom Henry Ward Beecher had allegedly had an affair in the early 1860s, around the time some of these letters were written.
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Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Church controversies — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 2008.023
Extent: 2.42 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and two record cartons.
This collection contains the administrative, financial, and regulatory records of Brooklyn Court No. 4 of the Order of the Amaranth of the State of New York, a women’s social and philanthropic society closely affiliated with the Freemasons. The Brooklyn Court’s regular meetings took place in the Johnston Building at 6 Nevins Street in Brooklyn. The records date back to 1897, the year of the Order’s inception, and record the activities of Brooklyn Court No. 4 through 1941. The inclusive dates of the collection are 1897 to 1961.
Names:
- Order of the Amaranth. Brooklyn Court No. 4 (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Order of the Amaranth
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
Subjects:
- Charitable giving
- Fraternal organizations — New York (State) — Kings County
- Freemasonry — New York (State) — Kings County
- Women and freemasonry — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Bylaws (administrative records)
- Certificates
- Correspondence
- Lists (document genres)
- Minutes
- Pamphlets
- Proceedings
- Reports
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Call Number: ARC.088
Extent: 1.67 Linear feet, in four manuscript boxes.
Names:
- Recreation Rooms and Settlement (New York, N.Y.)
- Adler, Felix, 1851-1933
- Berger, Graenum
- Davis, Gloria
- Koch, Ed, 1924-
- Brooklyn Council for Social Planning
- Christodora House (Lower East Side, New York, N.Y.)
- Citizens’ Housing and Planning Council (New York, N.Y.). Emergency Committee to Save Public Housing
- Citizens’ Housing Council of New York
- Clara de Hirsch Literary Club (New York, N.Y.)
- Council of Jewish Women (U.S.)
- East Side Tenants League (Lower East Side, New York, N.Y)
- Educational Alliance (New York, N.Y.)
- Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York
- Lower East Side Neighborhood Association (Lower East Side, New York, N.Y.)
- 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
- Rivington Neighborhood Association (New York, N.Y.)
- United States. Works Progress Administration
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Canarsie (New York, N.Y.)
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Charities — New York (State) — Kings County
- Charities — New York (State) — New York
- Community centers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Community centers — New York (State) — New York
- Jews — Charities
- Social settlements — United States
Types of material:
- Administrative records
- Annual reports
- Brochures
- Bylaws (administrative records)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Motion pictures (visual works)
- Negatives (photographic)
- Photographs
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Call Number: 1977.521
Extent: 0.01 Linear feet, in one folder.
Advertisement for the Institution for Young Ladies on Brooklyn Heights describing the school’s tuition, location, and curriculum.
The Institution for Young Ladies on Brooklyn Heights, also known as the Greenleaf Female Institute, was founded and established in 1837 by Alfred Greenleaf. Located at 106 Pierrepont Street at Clinton Street, it was a well-known girls’ school that catered to wealthy Brooklyn families.
Names:
- Institution for Young Ladies on Brooklyn Heights
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Girls — Education (Primary) — New York (State) — Kings County
- Girls’ schools — New York (State) — Kings County
- Single-sex schools — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: ARC.080
Extent: 1.5 Linear feet, in three full manuscript boxes and one half manuscript box.
The Mary A. Titcomb scrapbooks consist of seven volumes of clippings, 1865-1881. The scrapbooks contain clippings of the weekly magazine series that were written by Titcomb and published in Harper’s Bazar (known today as Harper’s Bazaar) and Harper’s Weekly for the publishers Harper & Brothers. The collection is organized into three series: “Mrs. Typeset’s Diary,” 1867-1870; “Says and Doings,” 1870-1881; and “Home and Foreign Gossip,” 1865-1880.
The scrapbooks contain the complete run of all three of the weekly series written by Titcomb.
Names:
- Titcomb, Mary A., 1830-1910
Places:
- New York (N.Y.) — Social life and customs — 19th century
Subjects:
- Harper’s bazaar
- Harper’s weekly
- Women authors, American
Types of material:
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