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Hulbert Collection, British Colonial Government Records, 1698 - 1846. 0.5 linear feet, plus one oversize folder.
AccNos. 1974.041, 1974.042, 1974.043
The Hulbert Collection contains original administrative and legislative correspondence from Britain and the North American colonies and the Bahamas, dating from the late 1600’s to c. 1840, with the bulk of the material dating from the late 1700’s. The correspondence in this collection issues from a variety of individuals and organizational bodies; taken together it indicates aspects of the relationship between Great Britain and her colonies in North America. The bulk of the correspondence is between administrative offices and officials on either side of the Atlantic. Among the materials present are correspondence, legislative documents, British army enlistment records, court and tax records and an 1832 Andrew Jackson election poster.
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Crown Heights Oral History – Bridging Eastern Parkway, 1993-1994. Sound recordings: 40 cassettes (90 minutes each)
ArMs 1994.006
In 1993-1994, the Brooklyn Historical Society collected interviews with residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Thirty-three interviews were conducted by Craig Wilder, Jill Vexler, and Aviva Segall. The subtitle, Bridging Eastern Parkway, refers to racial tensions expressed during the 1991 Crown Heights riots. Narrators are of African American, Caribbean, Jewish, Polish, and Russian descent and include members of the Lubavitch community.
Transcripts of 24 interviews from this collection may be read in the library. Recordings are not currently available to researchers; we anticipate that recordings will be available for researchers to listen to in the library in the Spring of 2010.
Hart - Linton Family Collection, 1865-1949. 1 record carton.
ArMs 1985.050 (also 2006.026).
Edith Linton married Frank Elsworth Hart at Plymouth Church in 1889 or 1890. Hart’s father, Frederick D. Hart, was chief engineer of Ridgewood Water Works. Frank and Edith had two children, both boys, and maintained residence on Jamaica Avenue in Flatlands. Frank died in 1895, and Edith then became a music teacher in the public schools and retired in 1921.
The Hart-Linton family materials constitute an evocative picture of c.1900 family life. The collection includes correspondence, certificates, obituary notices, wedding invitations, genealogy notes and papers, deeds and insurance, securities account books, and a number of images.
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Newell Dwight Hillis Papers (1883 - 1964). 4 record cartons, 2 boxes (60 linear inches).
ArMs 1985.004
Newell Dwight Hillis (1858 -1929) was a noted clergyman of his day. After several pastorates in the midwest, Hillis was called to the Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn in 1899. Plymouth Church was then well known as the Church of Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbot, whom Hillis succeeded. While at Plymouth Church Hillis gained in reputation as a preacher, lecturer and author. Among Hillis’s activities outside of Plymouth Church were his involvement in plans for the beautification of Brooklyn, his extensive lecture tours, and his articles and publications on spiritual matters and current topics.
The Newell Dwight Hillis Papers consist of Hillis’s correspondence and writings, business and financial records, ephemera, newsclippings, scrapbooks and family papers. The major activities of Hillis’s career which are well documented by the collection are his work in creating the Henry Ward Beecher Memorial and Plymouth Institute at Plymouth Church and his involvement in World War I which included two Liberty Loan tours and numerous articles, sermons and lectures on the events of the War and its aftermath.Correspondence and papers of Hillis’s children, Richard Hillis and Marjorie Hillis Roulston, and clippings and ephemera presumably collected by them make up a small part of the collection which post-dates Hillis’s death in 1929.
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Charles M. Higgins Papers, 1854-1929 (Bulk dates 1886-1929). 1 Oversize Box (.5 cubic feet).
ArMs 1978.114
Charles M. Higgins (1854-1929) was a prominent ink manufacturer and creator of “Higgins American India Ink”. He was the head of the Charles M. Higgins Company, manufacturers of the drawing ink he invented. Higgins was also active in many public service institutions, including the Anti-Vaccination League of America and the Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society, and he was a founding member of the Kings County Historical Society. Born in Ireland, Higgins’s family arrived in New York at the age of six and settled in Park Slope, where he continued to reside for the rest of his life.
The collection contains many papers, both pamphlets and typescripts (written mostly by Higgins), as well as photographs and clippings. Materials relate to Higgins’s position as a prominent ink manufacturer, as well as aspects of his activities in the Anti-Vaccination League of America, the Kings County Historical Society, and his interests in religious ethics and morality.
Access Points:
Personal Names
Higgins, Chas. M. (Charles Michael), b. 1854
Gavin, John E.
Higgins, Alexandra Fransioli, Mrs.
Higgins, Tracy
Topics
Vaccination
Vaccination — Complications
Tetanus
Businessmen — Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — 19th century
Businessmen — Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — 20th century
Prohibition
Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776
Corporate Names
Anti-Vaccination League of America
Higgins Ink Company, Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Brooklyn Bank
Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society
Manufacturer’s Association, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Montauk Club of Brooklyn
Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Geographic Terms
Park Slope (New York, N.Y.)
United States-History-Revolution, 1775-1783-Campaigns
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The Sgt. Arthur A. Hayward- New York National Guard 13th Regiment Collection, 1857-1951. 5 Boxes (4 document boxes and 1 oversize box), 2.6 cubic feet.
ArMs 2006.027
Arthur A. Hayward enlisted in the New York National Guard at the 13th Coast Artillery Armory on June 15, 1882 and rose in rank from corporal to color sergeant by 1889, and then from sergeant to master sergeant to sergeant major by 1922. Sgt. Major Hayward served in the 13th Regiment for forty-four years until his retirement in 1926, and was auditor and secretary of the 13th Regiment Veterans Association. Mr. Hayward had a wife, Jennie, and the couple had four children.
The collection consists of documents kept by Sgt. Hayward during his military career as sergeant-major. These records include receipts of expenses incurred, service records of officers, military certificates, letters on military dealings, and articles on the 13th Regiment. Records and documents pertaining to the 13th Regiment Veteran Association are also included. The collection also contains Hayward’s personal records, including letters written by him, his family, and acquaintances of the Haywards; business documents of the Haywards; and newspaper articles saved by Arthur A. Hayward. Finally, the collection includes 13th Regiment military photos and personal photos of Arthur A. Hayward and his family.
Access Points:
- Hayward, Arthur A. (1862-?)
- Hayward, Augustus
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 13th (1880-1929)
- United States. Army. Coast Artillery Regiment, 245th
- New York National Guard at the 13th Coast Artillery Armory-History
- Soldiers-Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)- 19th and 20th century
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Civil War Collection, 1804-1865 (bulk dates 1860-1865). 2 boxes (1 cubic foot).
ArMs 1977.200
Edwin P. Hopkins was born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, OH in 1841 or 1842. He enlisted in the 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery Regiment, Battery H on October 27, 1861. He was captured on November 27, 1863 during the Mine Run Campaign and imprisoned in Richmond, VA. In March 1864 he was transferred to Andersonville and appointed Steward in charge of the 1st division of the camp hospital, which was divided into four divisions. He was released in November 1864 and as of May 1865 was living in Toledo, Ohio. Andersonville Prison, officially named Camp Sumpter and located in Andersonville, GA, was active from February 1864 until the end of the Civil War in April 1865 and was one of the largest Confederate prisoner of war camps.
Edwin Hopkins collected the Andersonville materials while a prisoner at Andersonville. The records are original documents that were consolidated into reports by the surgeon in charge of each division and then submitted to the Chief Surgeon. Afterwards the originals were sent back to the Steward to be discarded. Hopkins, however, did not discard them and instead secreted them away and took them with him when he left Andersonville in November 1864.
The Civil War Collection comprises one cubic foot of materials that contain primary records from the hospital of the Confederate prisoner camp in Andersonville, GA, including roll books, letter books and statistics on admissions and deaths within the hospital. There is also a series of printed material, broadsides, circulars and forms, covering a wide variety of Civil War related topics including politics, suffrage, war forms, National Guard orders, religious organizations, relief organizations, Freedman’s groups, and temperance.
Access Points:
- Dodge, Stephen A.
- Hopkins, Edwin P.
- Confederate States of America-Army-Regiment, North Carolina Troops, 36th-Company C
- United States-Army-Regiment Infantry, New York Volunteers, 87th (1861-1862)
- New York (State)-National Guard-Regiment, 13th
- Suffolk Sabbath School Association
- National Freedmen’s Relief Association (U.S.)
- American Freedmen’s Friend Society
- The Brooklyn Daily Union
- Confederate States of America-Army-Prisons
- Hospitals-Military
- Prisons-Military-Georgia
- Hospital patients
- United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Prisoners and prisons
- United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Campaigns
- United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Hospitals
- Fair Oaks, Va. Battle of, 1862
- Patriotism-United States
- Elections-New York (State)
- United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Collectibles
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)-History-Military
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)-Charities
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Saretta Hicks Papers, 1963-1965. 4 boxes (2 cubic feet).
AccNo 1978.170 and 1980.003
This collection consists of papers gathered and, in many cases, written by author Saretta G. Hicks. The material includes her notes and research for an unfinished book about Lady Deborah Moody titled Dangerous Woman: A Biography of Deborah, Lady Moody of Coney Island. Lady Moody is best known as the founder of the town of Gravesend in what was then New Amsterdam and later became a part of Brooklyn, New York.
The collection was donated to the Brooklyn Historical Society in two parts (1978.170 and 1980.003). Each accession number is treated as a separate series. The first of these, 1978.170, contains Ms. Hicks’ research and related correspondence. The second part, 1980.003, contains the manuscript, chapter outlines and indexes. The collection contains undated materials and is organized by topic. Of particular note is the inclusion of copies of original documents pertaining to Lady Moody’s family history. There is also a four page typed transcript of Gravesend town meeting records from 1656.
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The Prohibition Collection, 1893-1942, 0.5 linear feet
ArMs 1977.127
The Prohibition Collection contains temperance periodicals, publications, correspondence, photographs, lecture invitations, campaign material, and newspaper clippings, 1893-1942, relating to the Prohibition movement in the U.S. and in New York State and City in particular. This material provides a look at this American political movement from the local level in New York and Kings Counties. The bulk of the material was donated in 1932 by George B. Hilliard, who was involved in the Prohibition movement for decades and was a county organizer and executive committee member for the Prohibition County Committee of New York. Some of the items date from 1933 to 1942 and their provenance cannot be established.
Subjects
- Kings County Prohibition Committee
- New York County Prohibition CommitteeProhibition Party (U.S.)
- Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
- Young People’s Prohibition League
- National Prohibition Park (Staten Island, New York, N.Y.)
- Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)–Maps
- United States–Politics and government
- Prohibition–United States
- Social movements–United States
- Temperance–United States
- Temperance–United States–Periodicals
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