Brooklyn Eagle profiles of Brooklyn's six original towns
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Several supplements from 1946 Sunday issues of the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper containing profiles of the borough of Brooklyn's six original towns, including Brooklyn, Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, and New Utrecht. Profiles detail each town's history, churches, homes, schools, and other notable buildings and monuments.
Arrangement
The booklets and photocopied supplements are arranged alphabetically by town name, and the color comics are at the end.
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Several supplements from 1946 Sunday issues of the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper containing profiles of the borough of Brooklyn's six original towns, including Brooklyn, Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, and New Utrecht. Profiles detail each town's history, churches, homes, schools, and other notable buildings and monuments. Williamsburg and Greenpoint are included in the Bushwick section, and Bay Ridge is included in the New Utrecht section. The collection also includes a set of booklets made from the supplements, presumably published circa 1947. Several pages of color comics, found interleaved with the Bushwick section, are also included.
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Open to researchers without restriction.
Conditions Governing Use
While many items at the Center for Brooklyn History are unrestricted, we do not own reproduction rights to all materials. Be aware of the several kinds of rights that might apply: copyright, licensing and trademarks. The researcher assumes all responsibility for copyright questions.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Brooklyn Eagle profiles of Brooklyn's six original towns, ARC.249; Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source and date of acquisition unknown.
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Processing Information
Minimally processed to the collection level. This collection was rehoused and the finding aid revised by Dee Bowers in 2024. At that time, preservation photocopies of the original newsprint supplements and comics were created and the originals discarded.
