Arnie Goldwag / Brooklyn CORE

 

Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection. 20 boxes (13 document boxes, 5 record cartons, and 2 artifact boxes), 13.75 linear feet

 

Call number: ARC.002

 

The Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) collection consists principally of the subject files concerning 1960s civil rights activism maintained by Arnie Goldwag, an officer of Brooklyn CORE during the first half of the 1960s. These files include correspondence, newsletters, event announcements (e.g., fliers), directions for demonstrators, photographs, press releases, clippings, and other documents related to many of the actions conducted by Brooklyn CORE, particularly for the period 1961-1965. Actions represented in the collection include those protesting discrimination in employment, housing, schools, and the like, including the controversial initiative to block traffic in connection with the opening of the 1964 World’s Fair. The collection also includes reminiscences by Goldwag and other CORE members looking back from the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to Brooklyn CORE-related material, the collection includes material related to other 1960s activist groups, including those involved with civil rights, Vietnam War opposition, and draft resistance, among others.

 

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Personal Names

Goldwag, Arnold

Lynn, Conrad J.

Mitchell, David Henry

Owens, Major R., (Major Robert Odell)

 

Subject Organizations
Alliance for Jobs or Income Now (New York, N.Y.)

Brooklyn Civil Rights Defense Committee (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Committee for Peace Organization

Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter

Congress of Racial Equality

End the Draft Committee

Freedom and Peace Party of New York State

Harlem Parents Committee

Metropolitan Council on Housing (New York, N.Y.)

New York World’s Fair (1964-1965)

Peace and Freedom Party (U.S.)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

Youth Against War and Fascism.

Subject Places
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) – History – Archival resources

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

New York (N.Y.)

New York (N.Y.) — History – Archival resources

 

 

Subject Titles

Children’s rights reports

Downdraft

Ergo

 

Subject Topics
African Americans – Civil rights – New York (State) – New York

African Americans – Education – New York (State) — New York

African Americans – Employment – New York (State) – New York

African Americans – New York (State) – New York

Civil disobedience – New York (State) – New York

Civil rights demonstrations – New York (State) – New York

Civil rights movements – New York (State) – New York

Civil rights workers – New York (State) – New York

De facto school segregation – New York (State) — New York

Discrimination in employment – New York (State) – New York

Discrimination in housing – New York (State) – New York

Discrimination in public accommodations – Cambridge (Md.)

Government, Resistance to – New York (State) – New York

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963

Minorities – Civil rights – New York (State) – New York

Police patrol – Surveillance operations

Race discrimination – New York (State) – New York

Rent strikes – New York (State) – New York

Reunions

Tenants’ associations — New York (State) — New York

 

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Gold, Lucille Fornasieri

V2008.013.60Lucille Fornasieri Gold Photograph Collection, 1968 – 2008, bulk 1973 – 1985, 93 photographs (.1 linear foot)

V2008.013

Lucille Fornasieri Gold donated 93 images to the photography collection in 2008. The images were donated as digital files as well as prints.  The negatives had been scanned and retouched by the photographer for enhancement and to rectify degradation of the images.

Lucille Fornasieri Gold started photographing with a Leica ca. 1969, while her children were in school.  She would develop and print in her kitchen darkroom of her Park Slope home.  When she moved, she lost her darkroom and the negatives were processed, but remained unprinted for years.  In the 1990s, she and her husband scanned the negatives and modified the images using Adobe Photoshop.

The photographs in this collection are street scenes and people in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush, Coney Island, and others, as well as Prospect Park in Brooklyn.  There are also photographs of several Manhattan neighborhoods, primarily the Lower East Side. The subject matter of the photographs includes animals, twins, elderly people, and cityscapes.

  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs — 20th century
  • Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
  • Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
  • Photographs
  • Documentary Photographs

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Eardeley Genealogy Collection

Eardeley Genealogy Collection

William Applebie Daniel Eardeley (1870-1935) was a prolific genealogist hailing from Brooklyn, NY.  Over the course of his career he amassed an extensive collection of genealogical information concerning families from all parts of the state of New York.  The Brooklyn Historical Society has made Eardeley’s collection available to researchers on microfilm.

The Eardeley Collection consists of two components, the Manuscript Collection and the New York State Abstracts of Wills.  The Manuscript Collection contains 14 reels of Eardeley’s handwritten notes, which he copied from original documentation in institutions across the state.  The reels are arranged alphabetically by family last name.  Each family file may contain any number of pages; some files consist of only 1 page while others number over 200 pages.  Consequently, the scope of information included in each family file varies, but generally ranges from a family member’s date of birth/death, town of residence, and names and dates of birth/death of the deceased’s spouse and children, to titles of inheritance and copies of wills and deeds.  The date range covered by the collection is quite extensive, reaching as far back as the time of New York’s founding up to the early twentieth century.  The Manuscript Collection is accompanied by a printed index listing each family last name in alphabetical order and the corresponding reel on which the family file can be found.  (Click here for an alphabetical listing of family names included in the collection).

The New York State Abstracts of Wills is comprised of 11 reels organized alphabetically by county name.  The reels consist of abstracts of wills, administrations and guardianships compiled by Eardeley during the period 1929-1933, which he copied from original estate proceedings in the counties of New York.  The abstracts generally cover the years 1787-1835, and each county file can range from several hundred pages to over a thousand pages.  In addition, Eardeley indexed on 3×5 cards all the names in his abstracts, i.e., those of the decendents, executors, administrators, petitioners, guardians, witnesses, named beneficiaries and minor children.  This index is available on a collection of 7 microfilm reels and is arranged alphabetically by last name.  Each 3×5 card contains an individual’s name, date of death (if applicable), town of residence, and page number on which the indexed person can be found within the corresponding county file.

The Eardeley Genealogy Collection is a valuable resource for researchers seeking genealogical information on individuals across the state of New York from the time of its founding up to the early twentieth century.   There is no appointment required to view this collection.

Graham, Augustus and John Bell

Augustus Graham and John Bell Graham Papers, 1808 – 1962 (Bulk Dates: 1850s).

ArMs 1977.266

The Augustus Graham and John Bell Graham papers consist of biographical and pictorial data collected and compiled by three descendants of Augustus Graham ( – 1851), philanthropist and businessman; and his brother John Bell Graham, both residents of Brooklyn.

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Griffith, William Patton

The William Patton Griffith Papers, 1861-1937. 1 document box, 0.5 cubic feet.

ArMs 2006.030

William Patton Griffith was born in Washington, PA., on July 22, 1843. He worked at The Washington Reporter as a reporter, editor, and poet, and during the Civil War he enlisted in the Union Army. After the war Griffith served as New York State Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) and was involved in a wealth of other veteran and civic organizations, such as the Society of Old Brooklynites.  He also continued his career in journalism, serving as editor at The Pittsburgh Dispatch, The New York Herald, The World, The Brooklyn Eagle, and The Brooklyn Press. Later in life Griffith enjoyed a successful career in public service in Brooklyn and, at the age of 76, became a practicing chiropractor.  He died on February 17, 1936.

The William Patton Griffith Papers consist primarily of correspondence, writings, speeches, and clippings relating to all aspects of Griffith’s participation as Grand Marshall in the Grand Army of the Republic and the Society of Old Brooklynites, among other civic activities in Brooklyn, with most of the collection focusing between the 1890s – 1930s. There are also some black and white photographs of Griffith attending a variety of public ceremonies and a few items representative of Griffith’s personal life, such as poems, programs, certificates and a swatch of flag bunting from the flag that flew over General Ulysses Grant’s tomb in 1897.

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Subject Topics
Freemasons –Brooklyn
War Memorials –United States

Subject Places
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) –Politics and government
United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 102nd (1861-1865)
United States –History –Civil War –Veterans

Corporate Names
Big Brothers of America
General Slocum (Steamboat)
Grand Army of the Republic
Society of Old Brooklynites (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Union Veteran Legion of the United States

Personal Names
Griffith, William Patton, 1843-1936
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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