Series 11: Brooklyn Union Gas Company - Cinderella projects, 1967-2008, inclusive

Extent

10 Linear Feet in nine folders, oversize folders, and five film canisters

Scope and Contents

The series documents the Brooklyn Union Gas Company's Cinderella projects. Starting in the 1960s, the company purchased and refurbished abandoned brownstones in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in order to attract new residents to the neighborhood. EGO designed and furnished the interiors of the first Cinderella home at 211 Berkeley Place in 1968, and EHO was vocal proponent of the program. In 1978 the Ortners recieved the company's Cinderella Award, and were featured in Brooklyn Union Gas Company advertisements.

The series consists of publications, correspondence, films, histories on the program and the company, and ephemera, dating from 1968 to 2008. Of note are three 16mm films produced by the company to promote the program in the 1970s.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Brooklyn Union Gas Company annual report, 1967, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Text)

211 Berkeley Place clippings and correspondence to EGO, 1968, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Text)

Brooklyn Union, Cinderella, and the Ortners, 1970s-1999, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Text)

Brooklyn Union Gas Company, 1970-1976, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Text)

Brooklyn Union Gas Company - Brownstones of Brooklyn films (3 copies), 1972, inclusive

bin: 2014.003.11.1-3, reel: - (Material Type: Moving Images)

Brooklyn Union Gas Company - Cinderella of Berkeley Place (?) film, circa 1972, inclusive

reel: 2014.003.11.4, reel: - (Material Type: Moving Images)

Brooklyn Union Gas Company - Cinderella of Prospect Place film, circa 1972, inclusive

bin: 2014.003.11.5, reel: - (Material Type: Moving Images)

Brooklyn Union - Costumes, 1972-1973, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Text)

Brooklyn Union Gas - Cinderella contact sheet, 1976, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Text)

Brooklyn Union Gas Company - Cinderella project newspaper advertisements, 1976-1977, inclusive

Box: 75, Folder: - (Material Type: Text)

General

Oversize

Brooklyn Union Gas Company - Ortners/Cinderella award winners posters, 1978, inclusive

Box: 76, Folder: - (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

General

Oversize

Brooklyn Union, 1997-1998, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Text)

Typescripts on Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Keyspan, and National Grid by EHO, 2006, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Text)

Brooklyn Union Gas Company's Cinderella Projects by Elizabeth Soloman, 2008, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Text)

General

Includes edits by EHO