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Advertising and trade cards

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Banks

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Brooklyn Savings Bank, Dime Savings Bank, Eagle Savings and Loan Co., Peoples Trust Co., Williamsburgh Savings Bank.

Bridges

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg.

Buildings

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes Borough Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Museum, main post office, and the Temple Bar building, as well as armories, court houses, clubs, Eagle building (and one postcard of the Eagle Paris Bureau), factories, and civic buildings.

Churches

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Baptist Temple, Christ Church, First Presbyterian, Greene Avenue Presbyterian, Hanson Place Baptist, Hanson Place M.E., LaFayette Avenue Presbyterian, New York Avenue M.E., Plymouth Church, St. Agnes, St. Francis Xavier, St. James, St. Paul's, St. Peter's, Svenska Ev. Lutherska Bethlehem-Kyrkan, Trinity Church, Westminster Presbyterian, Ye Olde St. Mary's.

Eagle postcards

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

In number order. Not a complete set.

General

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

"Greetings from Brooklyn" and other souvenir postcards with multiple images.

Grand Army Plaza

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes the Sailors and Soldiers Memorial arch, entrance to Prospect Park, and Mount Prospect water tower.

Hospitals

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Brooklyn Hospital, Long Island College Hospital, Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Seney Hospital, Tillary Street Maternity Center.

Hotels

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Bossert, Clarendon, Franklin Arms, Granada, Mansion House, Montague, Margaret, Mohawk, Palm, Pierrepont, Plaza, St. George, Times Plaza, Touraine, Towers.

Monuments and statues

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes Henry Ward Beecher statues and Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument.

Navy Yard

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes Wallabout Market.

Neighborhoods

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Cobble Hill and Coney Island.

Parks

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes Prospect Park and Fort Greene Park.

Restaurants

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Schools

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes Adelphi, Packer Collegiate Institute, Polytechnic, and Pratt.

Stores

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes Namm's, Loeser's, and Abraham and Straus.

Streets

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Bergen Street, Clinton Avenue, Columbia Heights, Court Street (including City Hall Square), Eastern Parkway, Flatbush Avenue, Fourth Avenue, Fulton Street, Greene Avenue, Hanson Place, Lafayette Avenue, Montague Street, Myrtle Avenue, Park Place, Pierrepont Street, Prospect Park West, St. Mark's Avenue, Union Street, Washington Avenue.

Theaters

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Albee, Grand Opera House, Fox, Fulton, New Montauk, Orpheum, Paramount, Prospect, Strand.

Transportation

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes L.I.R.R. depot, Fulton Street elevated, and Borough Hall station.

Views and waterfront

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

YMCA and YWCA

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Includes both Central and Naval YMCA.

Center for Brooklyn History
128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201