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Terhune-Wyckoff Family Papers (1747-1932). 10 linear inches.
ArMs 1977.192
Albert Terhune (1715-1806) was a supervisor of the town of Gravesend, a member of the Gravesend Dutch Reformed Church (ca.1766) and an elder of that church (ca.1795). Upon his death, he left a sizable estate to his six surviving children (three sons and three daughters). One of his sons, John (1767-1842), was a judge in Gravesend and a supervisor of that town during the 1810’s and 20’s, and a founder of the Gravesend & Coney Island Road & Bridge Company. Before his death, he wrote but failed to execute a will, and upon his passing his estate was administered by the sons of his sister Margaret, Albert Wyckoff and Jacob V.D. Wyckoff (1805-57), a New York hardware merchant.
The Terhune-Wyckoff Papers span the years 1747-1932. They are primarily the records of family finances and estates administration for the period 1800-58. The bulk of the material in the collection is in the form of bills, receipts and promissory notes issued by or to the Terhune brothers, and notes or records kept by administrators of the estates of several Terhunes and Wyckoffs.
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Theatre Collection, 1733-1939. 4 boxes (2 document boxes and 2 oversized flat boxes), 3.5 cubic feet.
ArMs1977.041
Brooklyn has had a lively history as an entertainment outlet, particularly through its active theatre scene during the gas-light days of the 18th and 19th century. Notable venues included the Manhattan Beach Amusement Park in Coney Island, which frequently staged musical comedies, to the infamous Conway’s Brooklyn Theater, which in December 5, 1876 went down in blazes, and event that later spurred local legislation to regulate theater design, incorporating them into city building codes in 1885.
The Theatre Collection is comprised of playscripts, playbills, programs, and other ephemera from various theatre venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In addition, the collection has some early rare examples of handwritten director’s promptbooks dating to 1733. Such well-known establishments as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Montauk Theatre, Orpheum Theatre, Payton’s Lee Avenue Theatre, and the Lyceum Hall in Brooklyn and the Astor Place Opera House, Barnum’s American Museum, Franklin Theatre, and Laura Keen’s Theatre are represented in this collection.
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Topics
Drama–New York (State) –New York
Playbills
Theaters –New York (State) –Brooklyn
Theaters –New York (State) –New York
Theater programs
Geographic Locations
Brooklyn (New York, NY) –Social life and customs–19th century
Manhattan (New York, NY) –Social life and customs–19th century
Organizations
Brooklyn Academy of Music –New York (State) –Brooklyn
Conway’s Brooklyn Theatre –New York (State) –Brooklyn
Grand Opera House –New York (State) –Brooklyn
Manhattan Beach Amusement Park–New York (State) –Brooklyn
Montauk Theatre–New York (State) –Brooklyn
New Brighton Theatre–New York (State) –Brooklyn
Colonel Sinn’s New Park Theatre –New York (State) –Brooklyn
Orpheum Theatre–New York (State) -Brooklyn
Payton’s Theatre –New York (State) –Brooklyn
Teller’s Broadway Theatre– New York (State) –Brooklyn
Personal Names
Adams, Maude, 1872-1953
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
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Brooklyn Theatre Fire Relief Association Records, 1876-1879. 2.5 document boxes (1 linear foot)
 Stereograph depicting Johnson St. after the Brooklyn Theater Fire, December 5, 1876. Waller & Schrader, Photographers. V1972.1.923 ArMs 1977.049
The Brooklyn Theatre Fire Relief Association Records document the efforts of a voluntary charity organization to provide relief to the families of the victims of the tragic fire in 1876 that killed more than 300 people in the Brooklyn Theatre. The collection is mainly comprised of the investigations conducted into the claims made by surviving relatives of those killed in the fire and the financial documents of the association.
Subjects
- Brooklyn Theatre Fire Relief Association
- Brooklyn Theatre (New York, N.Y.) — Fire, 1876
- Charity organization
- Demographic surveys
- Memorial service
- Putnam, A. P. (Alfred Porter), 1827-1906
- Schroeder, Frederick A.
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The Frank J. Trezza Seatrain Shipbuilding Collection, 1861-1988, 0.25 linear feet
ArMs 1988.016
The Frank J. Trezza Seatrain Shipbuilding Collection documents shipbuilding activities at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from its closing by the Department of Defense in the mid-1960s through its rebirth and eventual demise under the management of the Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp. Though the dates of the collection span from 1861 to 1988, the bulk of the records span the period 1973-1978, when Frank J. Trezza was an employee of Seatrain Shipbuilding. Included in the collection are newspaper clippings, union publications, pamphlets and newspapers published by Seatrain, a Seatrain employee orientation kit, black & white photographs, color photographs, color slides, and black & white negatives.
Subjects
- International Union, United Industrial Workers of America
- New York Naval Shipyard
- Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp.
- United States. Navy
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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