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Portrait Collection, 1700-2000 25 boxes (10.42 linear feet) Photographs and printed matter, including reproductions of drawings, engravings, and paintings, featuring people from Brooklyn and beyond ranging from the 18th to 20th centuries. Organized alphabetically by last name of the person featured in the portrait. Subjects:
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.
Pfizer Brooklyn Oral History, 2007. Sound recordings: 27 wav files 2008.029 The Brooklyn Historical Society and Pfizer, Inc., initiated the Pfizer Brooklyn Oral History project in June 2007. 25 in-depth interviews were conducted with past and current employees. The Pfizer pharmaceutical company was founded in Brooklyn in 1849, and in 2007 the company planned to close this founding plant location over the next two years (by 2009). Recordings of these interviews may be listened to in the library. Transcripts of the interviews may be read in the library. Morgan-Parry Family Papers, 1861-1909. 2 document boxes (0.8 cubic feet). ArMs 1990.006 Henry C. Morgan was the son of N.D. Morgan, President of the North America Life Insurance Company in New York, and the nephew of Edwin Denison Morgan, who served as Governor of New York and later was a United States Senator. Henry worked as clerk for the Manhattan Life Insurance Company before being enlisted to serve in the Civil War as a Recruiting Officer on October of 1861. While recruiting service in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Henry met his future wife, Augusta “Gussie” Parry. After being wounded in Virginia in 1864, requiring amputation of his left leg above the knee, Henry left service, and he and Augusta were married in April of 1865. The couple had three daughters and settled in Brooklyn on Clinton Street, later moving to Connecticut. The Morgan-Parry Family Papers include the Official and Personal papers of Henry C. Morgan and Augusta Parry. Materials of an official nature include documents and correspondence of Henry C. Morgan relating to his work as a 1st Lt. in the 12th infantry of the U.S. Army, and later as Captain in the 30th Regiment of the Infantry. Personal materials include correspondence and letters relating to Henry and Augusta, as well as their daughter Mary and Augusta’s father, Edward O. Parry. The collection also contains a contract for Henry and Augusta’s residence on Clinton Street dating from December 1870. Access Points: Personal Names Topics Geographic Terms Patterson Family Collection, 1847-1956. 1.25 linear feet (3 document boxes, 1 oversize folder, 4 custom boxes). AccNo. 1980.013 The Pattersons were a multi-generational family living in Brooklyn Heights, and its members worked in a variety of fields. William Patterson (c.1821-1890/1891) worked in construction, and his son, Stephen (1855-1905), worked as a lawyer, as did Stephen’s daughter, May (c.1879-1925). May Patterson holds the distinction of being the first female Assistant District Attorney to argue a case in a United States court. Stephen’s other daughter, Annie Louise (1883-1970), married Alexander Lassen Jones (c.1881-?), a theater manager and producer. The Patterson Family Collection is comprised of the papers and photographs saved by the Patterson Family between 1847 and 1956. The collection includes financial documents, legal documents, correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, post cards, and cartes de visite. The content of the collections varies based on date as different generations saved different types of material. Access Points: Personal Names Subjects Geographical Headings Brooklyn Poetry Circle Collection, 1935-2000. 4 record cartons, 1 oversize box (4.62 cubic feet). ArMs 1989.009 and 2005.005 The Brooklyn Poetry Circle was founded in 1935. The well-known poet Edwin Markham encouraged the society and actively promoted it until his death in 1940. Other established poets also participated in the society during its early years and helped to define its aesthetic. The group held monthly meetings, for which a poetic theme would be assigned and each member would submit a poem. Most active members of the circle joined in the relatively early years of the institution’s history and remained members throughout their lives. During the 1980s and 1990s, very few people applied for membership, and the aging Circle members voted to disband in 1997. This collection contains records and other materials related to the activities of the Brooklyn Poetry Circle and its individual members. The collection includes minutes, correspondence, and membership lists, as well as printed material created for, or generated by its member activities (including programs, flyers, tickets, printed anthologies, and newspaper clippings). The collection also contains a very large number of poems written by members of the Circle, the majority of which are undated, and a significant number of which are unsigned. Furthermore, extensive scrapbooks documenting the life of the group are also included. Access Points: Personal Names Corporate Names Topics Geographic Terms Records of Puerto Rican Oral History Project,1960-1984 (Bulk dates, 1973-1975). 4 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic feet. ArMS 1976.001 The Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society) initiated the Puerto Rican Oral History Project in 1973. Over seventy-five interviews were conducted documenting the experiences of Brooklyn residents who arrived from Puerto Rico between 1917 and 1940. This collection includes recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted primarily between 1973 and 1975. Also included are newspaper clippings, brochures, booklets about Brooklyn’s Puerto Rican community, and administrative information on how the project was developed, carried out, and evaluated. Transcripts of the interviews can 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. Brooklyn Park Advisory Committee CollectionArMs 1988.050 This collection covers the participation of Elizabeth Feldhusen in the Brooklyn Park Advisory Committee and spans the period December 12, 1982 to March 30, 1988. It consists of meeting agendas and minutes together with proposed plans and studies for the improvement of Prospect Park. Records of the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council of Churches, 1840-1979 (Bulk Dates: 1895-1974). 28 document boxes and 8 custom ledger boxes (15.5 cubic feet). ArMs 1980.006 (also containing 1980.007) The Records of the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council of Churches trace the history of the Brooklyn Division and its numerous predecessors over a period of nearly one hundred and fifty years. The records in this collection date back to the Brooklyn City Tract Society, the earliest predecessor of the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council of Churches. The organizations documented in this collection trace the history of Protestantism and missionary work in Brooklyn well into the twentieth century. In their missionary and evangelical work, the organizations represented here involved themselves in numerous aspects of Brooklyn’s growth as a city, promoting immigrant acculturation, aiding in social reform, supporting education, and facilitating interracial relations. The bulk of this collection consists of office files dating from 1950 to 1974; however, much of the material in this collection concerns missionary work at the turn of the nineteenth century and the collection dates back to 1840. Included in the collection are minutes, subject files, publications, financial records, and newspaper clippings. The collection has been arranged functionally according to seven series: Related Organizations, Minutes and Reports, Financial Records, Publications, Subject Files, Scrapbooks, and Photographs. Access Points:
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