John D. Morrell Photograph Collection, 1957-1974, bulk 1958-1963. 2,675 photographs (15 linear feet)
v1974.4, v1974.9
John D. Morrell, assistant librarian at the Long Island Historical Society (now called the Brooklyn Historical Society) donated over 2,000 black and white and color negatives and prints to the Photography Collection. The images document Brooklyns’s streets, railroads, buildings and some people in almost every neighborhood, but predominantly in Brooklyn Heights, Bath Beach, Flatbush, Carroll Gardens, and Downtown Brooklyn. They are indexed in detail by address, street name, and/or neighborhood, sometimes including proper names of businesses or institutions.
Subjects:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Buildings, Structures, etc. — Pictorial Works
- Photographs
- Documentary Photographs