Images by Subject

Includes an image of a model of a pediment from the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn.

One image of the Brooklyn armory at 52nd Street and 2nd Avenue.

One image of Jerry Strickland, son of Johnathan Strickland, son of Harmon Strickland.

Photographs by Rex Chen, a photographer hired by BHS for an exhibition on Sunset Park.

Includes a black and white photograph of Bay Ridge High School (now PS 485 High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology) and a color print of a private residence on 82nd Street.

Includes a photograph of buildings on Herkimer Street circa 1921 and a circa 19th century print of buildings on Gates Avenue.

One 1888 black and white photograph of a steam train at Bensonhurst station.

One black and white photograph of Bergen Beach seen from the water, 1918.

One of the two photographs in this folder is labeled "from H. Dickson McKenna."

One book of photo postcards depicting Brooklyn landmarks by A. Wittemann, copyright 1903.

3 prints from periodicals.

Includes one advertising booklet about "Mansion House," an apartment building on Hicks Street between Clark and Pierrepont.

Includes one image of 142 Joralemon Street, architect Philip Freshman.

Includes three portrait photographs in Hotel Bossert souvenir folders.

Also includes Wallabout Market.

Includes Breevort, Vanderveer, Wyckoff-Bennett, Martense, Ditmas, Duryea, Lott, Neefus. One image of the Bevier house is by Leo C. Spies.

Addresses include 1781 East 15th Street, 511 Greene Avenue, 2358 West 12th Street, 1215 Dunne Court. Also includes Foster house, New York Telephone Co. building, Malcolm MacKinnon residence.

One photograph is of people in the office of Pendleton and Pendleton, Inc. at 135 Montague Street circa 1925, donated by Margaret Menard Price, whose father Albert Robert Menard (d. 1987) was president of the company.

Also includes Leonard Moody real estate office, Dime Savings Bank, Williamsburg Savings Bank building, and an image of the truck of Frank Waring, lace curtain refinisher, donated by Thomas Ahern, August 1993.

Box 22 includes "A Hot Summer Day," 1995, which was a gift of Phyllis Starkman in 2017 and is a color photo of Heights Cinema, as well as images of Kings County Savings Bank and Grand Opera House.

Includes Empire Stores (Marcia Reiss photos), Bush Terminal, Socony Vacuum Oil Co. (Mobil).

Copies of two images from the Sam Reiss Photographs, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYU. One depicts a picket line outside Beth-El hospital and the other Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at an event for Local 1199, Drug and Hospital Employees.

One photograph that was the gift of Patricia Knox. Another depicts "Bridge Street Colored Church" with scaffolding on its front facade.

Includes two photos of horse-drawn carts that were the gift of Bob Mickert and an image of a horse-drawn cart from Frederick Loeser's.

Includes images of Christ Church (Bay Ridge), Old Bushwick Church, Dutch Reformed Church of Flatbush, and Third M.E. Church, Washington Street, stamped "Armbruster collection" on verso.

Box 22 includes Holy Cross Cloister.

Box 16 includes Sunday Services at Charity R.C. Church in Crown Heights by Rodney K. Hurley, Junior Choir of the Middle Collegiate Church.

Box 22 includes Baptist Temple choir (1948) and a Pentecostal Norwegian group of the Salem Gospel Tabernacle at Seventh Avenue and 52nd Street (1939; V1988.51.1).

Most of the photographs in this folder are credited to either Roy Pinney or Boro Wide Photos.

Includes Red Cross Auxiliary of the Reformed Church of Flatbush (1944) and the Borinquen Democratic Club.

Box 22 includes images of the National Area Health Education Center Organization (pictured at Borough Hall) and the Third Congress of American Poets (1938; V1998.9.6).

Includes images of a 1930 women's dinner attended by Eleanor Roosevelt, a circa 1924 golf tournament, and a circa 1927 West Indies cruise.

Box 22 includes an image of Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce members with President Coolidge at the White House, April 1927.

Includes images of Daughters of the American Revolution Battle Pass chapter 50th anniversary (1955, photo by R.H. White); Morse Telegraph Club (1964, gift of Joseph B. Milgram); Greenpoint Patriotic League (1944); Lincoln Public Speaking Club (1927-1929); Long Island Tercentenary Committee; Long Island Linksmen; Long Island Fair; Whig and Tory Day; Committee to Preserve Flatbush Town Hall; Knickerbocker Field Club; Brooklyn Tennis Club; Brooklyn Safety Council; Brooklyn Real Estate Board; Brooklyn Democratic Committee; Todd Memorial Post #1201 American Legion (1946).

Box 22 includes images of the National Association of Organists.

Also includes Brighton Beach.

Includes a circa 1900-1910 image of the officers of the 69th precinct standing outside their building on West 8th Street (Box 22). Also includes an image of the Manhattan Beach hotel and one souvenir image of Henry and Rose Haber circa 1916 that was the gift of Frances Haber.

One photograph of the Parachute Jump circa 1955 by Harry Kalmus.

Includes two photographs: Polar Bear Club by Frank Passalagua and Coney Island Bayview Gardens Astella Development Corp. by Stephen Senigo (1985).

Includes Brooklyn Rotary Club Dodgers lunch (1945); YWCA 75th anniversary (1963; Gift of Frederick C. Ward, 1994); Catholic Men's League of New York Navy Yard (1943); Morning Choral luncheons and dinners (1927, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1949, 1954); A. Schrader & Sons Co. testimonial dinner for Miss M. Forbes (Gift of Irene Kasika Jansky); Brooklyn Council, Boy Scouts of America (V1995.039); Flushing Oratorio Society (1936); 12:45 Club (1940, 1948); New York Federated Music Clubs (1948); Prospect Heights Hospital Dinner Dance in Honor of Mrs. Maud West (1957; Gift of Frances Bernstein).

One illustration of Borough Hall.

Mostly images of Borough Hall with one image of "shanties at the foot of Court Street."

Borough Hall and county courthouse.

Color photographs from Marcia Reiss, 2002; Empire Stores, circa 1970.

One circa 19th century image of what appears to be sewer pipes on the street.

Includes Lefferts, Boerum and Vanderveer barns.

Includes photos of pictures from an 1892 history of the Brooklyn Fire Department that were the gift of Mike Gorman and Museum of the City of New York picture postcards of fire engines and carriages that were the gift of H.M. Nicholson, 1956.

Includes Stoothoff, Lott, Remsen, and Bergen residences.

One set of black and white photos of the Stonewall project, September 1992. Several copies of one photo of a meeting of the East Coast Homophile Organization (ECHO), 1965, Jack Nichols collection.

Schermerhorn house; Old Stone House; view from Battle Hill.

Mural of Lady Moody that hung in Greater New York Savings Bank, Bay Parkway and 67th Street, until 1975; Lake, Stryker, and Wyckoff-Bennett homesteads.

Debevoise house; Newtown Creek; McGolrick Park.

Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital (some items gift of Paul Castellon, 1976); Long Island College Hospital (set of June 1983 images numbered V1998.025); Graham Institute for Aged Females; Coney Island Hospital (gift of Joyce Hounsell, 1998; accession 2023.045).

295 Sterling Place; 22 Halsey Street; John J. Hill home, 301 Hicks Street; 44 Linden Street; 42 Bartlett Street. Note that an image of the exterior of 42 Bartlett Street is housed in Street Scenes and Buildings.

Giglio festival and Italian food stores circa 1980s.

One image of proposed (never completed) Central library (Brooklyn Public Library).

Includes Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument at Fort Greene Park.

One image of Midwood Club, Flatbush Avenue.

Schenk homestead.

Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn Children's Museum; MoMA P.S. 1

Includes a set of images of the Brooklyn Heights Historic Parade, crica 1984, gift of Adelay Liss, executrix of Robert Kahn's estate.

Several images of the Cortelyou house/Old Stone House; homes on 5th Street and 8th Avenue; apartment building at 118 8th Avenue; corner of Union and Plaza Streets; Litchfield Mansion.

1868 design for layout of Fort Greene Park from Manual of the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn.

Includes an image of Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden with his family.

Two images of Kings County Penitentiary and several of the penitentiary at Blackwell's Island.

Several color photos of a reenactment of the Battle of Brooklyn; Lefferts homestead; Litchfield villa; Boat House. Some images gift of Dorothy A. Burns.

Box 29 contains a 3' long rolled panoramic photo of Charles Lindbergh addressing a crowd at Prospect Park in June 1927.

Two photographs in this folder depict the statue being installed on top of the arch and were the gift of Patricia Knox. One image of the plaza from above was the gift of the Bronx Historical Society.

Replica of Mount Vernon; Dairy; Lullwood bridge; Concert Grove house; well and boiler house; observatory; parade ground lodge and shelter; Bartel Pritchard square; Eastern Parkway.

One photograph: meeting at Borough Hall in June 1935: Robert Moses, Alfred E. Smith, Raymond V. Ingersoll, and Louis C. Wills (chairman of Prospect Park Zoo committee). Planning the raising of funds for the procurement of animals.

One set of color photos of a Protect the Arts rally to "keep culture in NYC - stop 100% cuts to arts programs," mid-1990s.

Erie Basin; Atlantic docks; Red Hook Houses; Battery tunnel.

One image of Black Sea Bookstore, Inc.

Erasmus; Pratt; Adelphi; Packer; Church of the Pilgrims; P.H.H. nursing; International School of Music; P.S. 179 (June 1920); Mark Hopkins JHS (January 1944; V1997.033); P.S. 102 (June 1941; 2004.013; Gift of Rosary Gilheany [nee Scacciaferro]); Prospect Heights Presbyterian Sabbath School.

Three of the photographs in this folder are labeled "Saul Goldsmith collection."

Includes an image of an overhead crane at the Eastern District Terminal. One of the photographs in this folder is labeled "Schwartz collection."

Includes photographs by seaman Irving Mordkowitz of surrender ship USS Missouri (built Brooklyn Navy Yard) returning for the last time, October 1947. Also includes a photograph of the Indiana in dry dock, Brooklyn Navy Yard, October 1898, gift of Isabelle L. Ivory, 1949.

Mostly baseball teams and players, and one image of Mrs. Leon M. Schoonmaker, a woman fencer.

Box 19 includes a set of color photos of soccer teams in Red Hook circa 1995 and a black and white image of a toy sailboat race in Prospect Park.

Box 25 includes a black and white photo of a boy scout troop circa early 20th century.

1977 photo of what appears to be a lottery winner taken by George Kanatous. Horseracing photos by Underwood & Underwood.

One color print of Staten Island quarantine in 1833 and one set of black and white photos of historic Staten Island buildings, 1885-1886, gift of E.M. Luidley.

In box 19, buildings include 42 Bartlett Street (see also Interiors - Identified); A.J. Nutting and Co.; 663-667 Utica Avenue vacant lots, 1954 (Saul Goldsmith collection).

Streets include Clinton Avenue, Snyder Avenue (1910, home of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Shafer, gift of Peter Blulim, 1996); Elton Street; Fulton Street; Flatbush Avenue; corner of Joralemon Street and Court Street; Marlborough Road.

In box 25, there is an image of a crowd on Bergen Street circa 1880 and an image of the Jonathan Longmire house on Woodruff Avenue and St. Paul's Place.

One image of 4th Avenue at 51st Street (1902) and one image of a home at the foot of 39th Street.

One image of what appears to be a dispatcher.

Many images of Fulton Ferry.

Includes a color illustration of a horse-drawn railroad car (gift of H.M. Nicholson); photograph of S. Sylvester May Gas and Electric fixtures horse-drawn vehicle, Schermerhorn Street, c. 1905; black and white illustrations of sleighing parties; Thomas Molloy and son in a carriage drawn by the horse Billy Paxton; and a photograph of Frank Waring and others in a horse-drawn carriage (gift of Thomas Ahern, 1993).

Includes images of the steam train "Gravesend" at Coney Island station (Box 25) and the elevated tracks at Fulton and Court Streets.

One image of workers (including "Big John" De Marco) building the tunnel under Joralemon Street.

Includes an image of the Nostrand Avenue and Prospect Park troleys at Nostrand and Atlantic Avenues (Box 25) and an image of a Flatbuhs Avenue trollet on Livingston near Nevins (Box 20).

Includes a set of captioned photographs of an aerial inspection of the Atlantic shore front from Staten Island to Montauk, 1962. Several photos labeled "Schwartz collection."

Includes a set of reproductions of drawings made from photographs found at Weeksville. The reproductions are (c) 1973, Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant History, and include an explanatory text.

One color illustration of ice skaters on Union Pond and three images related to Morrison V.R. Weyant's 1926 book "The fountain at Bedford Avenue and Division Avenue, Brooklyn, 1859."

Many if not all of these photos are not of Brooklyn.

Includes a photograph by Nick L. Senzamici of Brooklyn, gift of Ralph R. Colantuoni, depicting a service flag dedication on Somers Street between Rockaway Avenue and Stone, April 1942.