Brooklyn ephemera collection
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Abstract
The Brooklyn ephemera collection consists of catalogs, postcards, business cards, fliers, circulars, and other remnants of daily life in Brooklyn. Major portions of the collection relate to Brooklyn Public Library, local businesses, churches, and schools.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject. Ephemera from similar sources are grouped under one subject heading (i.e. "Banks" and "Restaurants"), with sub-categories for each establishment, person, or organization as needed.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains historic and contemporary printed ephemera of Brooklyn. Although often created for temporary, practical business and social needs (i.e., a ticket stub for a dance or a business card), printed ephemera can often reveal much more nuanced information about the time and place in which it was produced. Commercial businesses, schools, municipal boards and commissions, and other clubs and organizations produced the material that is in this collection, which spans more than 150 years of Brooklyn history.
Conditions Governing Access
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/descriptive title, date (if known); Folder title; Brooklyn ephemera collection, BCMS_0007; Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This is an artifical composite collection made up of materials from many different sources acquired over several years.
Accruals
Accruals have been and will continue to be frequently added.
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Processing Information
This is an artificial collection compiled by Brooklyn Collection staff over many years. In January 2023, the "Schools" folders were removed to the Brooklyn schools collection (CBHM.0006). In October 2025, a paper Red Cross "flag" from 1919 was added to this collection after being removed from the Brooklyn Historical Society mixed manuscript collection (1974.037). In April 2026, materials from the "newspapers and periodicals" section of this collection were moved to the Brooklyn Historical Society newspaper collection (ARC.258) and one issue of The Brooklyn Teacher magazine (1901) was moved to the Brooklyn schools collection (CBHM.0006). In May 2026, the collection was intellectually rearranged by Dee Bowers. At that time, additional newspapers and periodicals were removed to ARC.258 and the Pratt Institute collection (1985.056), the items in the Maps folder were foldered under other subjects as appropriate, and non-Brooklyn materials were removed to the Brooklyn Historical Society vertical files (ARC.315).
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Albee Square
Armories
Artists
Scope and Contents
Includes Brooklyn Artists Gym, Michael Scott Berman Photography, Tony Valez, and Women artists living in Brooklyn.
Artists: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes Tan, Tattfoo.
Arts: Literary
Scope and Contents
Includes Brooklyn Book Festival.
Arts: Performing
Scope and Contents
Includes Amateur Chamber Music Players, NYC; Arts at St. Ann's; Black Theater Alliance; Brooklyn Conservatory of Music; Brooklyn Lyric Opera Association; Brooklyn Opera Company; Brooklyn Philharmonic; Brooklyn String Orchestra; Catholic Diocesan Choristers; Chelsea Theatre; Dance; Egbe Omo Nago Folkloric Ensemble; Gilbert Dramatic Association; Pearl Primus Dance Company; Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn; and Polish Theater Group.
Arts: Performing: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes American Ballet Company, Brooklyn Philharmonia, and Merce Cunningham & Dance Company.
Concert programs
Millennium Concert Hall
Scope and Contents
Super Chanukah concert poster.
Arts: Visual
Scope and Contents
Includes architecture and sculpture, exhibitions, Kentler International Drawing Space, Object Image Gallery, and Summa Gallery.
All Communities Arts
Motion Picture Industry [Film]
Scope and Contents
Includes Brooklyn Bridge script.
Movie posters
Atlantic Yards
Banks
Scope and Contents
Includes Bank of the Manhattan Co., Bay Bridge Savings and Loan Association, Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company, Broadway Trust Co., Brooklyn Savings Bank, Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn, Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh ("70 Years," 1934), East Brooklyn Savings and Loan Association, Flatbush Savings Bank, Flatbush Trust Company, Franklin Trust, German Savings Bank, Greater New York Savings Bank, Greenpoint Savings Bank, Hamburg Savings, Kings County Savings Bank, Lincoln Savings Bank, Long Island Bank (includes John Lefferts bank note), Municipal Bank, National City Bank of New York, North Side Bank, People's Trust Company, Roosevelt Savings Bank of the City of New York, Savings Bank Trust Company (1946 annual report), South Brooklyn Savings Bank, Williamsburg Savings Bank, and Williamsburg Trust Company.
Banks: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes Greenpoint Savings Bank and Williamsburg Savings Bank.
Bathhouses
Bay Ridge
Scope and Contents
Bay Ridge History by Ann Cagan; Directory of Bay Ridge Organizations by Brevoort Savings Bank, 1964; Community In Which You Live, 1950; Ovington Village Association; Zoning Report, Dept. of City Planning, 1978.
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Scope and Contents
Including Post-war improvements, 1943.
Biographical
Adams, Joey
Alexander, William (Earl of Stirling)
Ankers, John Henry
Avery, William
Beck, Julian
Scope and Contents
Songs of the Revolution.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Scope and Contents
Funeral tickets and program.
Bergen, Teunis
Betts, Dorothy
Bonanno, Dominick
Boody, David A.
Buchanan, Jean Sinclair
Byrd, Richard
Cacchione, Peter V.
Cadman, S. Parkes
Carnegie, Andrew
Cashmore, John
Conway, Thomas W.
DeHart, Simon
Eaton, Dr. Darwin G.
Gordon, Jack
Hodnett, John Pope
Kevess family
Livingston, Robert R.
Loines, Stephen
Lonto, Arthur
Maas, Willard
Mack, Jean
Maddox, Samuel
Mahana, Mozelle
Moore, Marianne
Neilson, Kenneth
Niss, Lou
O'Dwyer, William
Ogden, Robert Curtis
Oppizzi, Angela Boglioli
Polley, Grahams
Proctor, Margery Wells
Robertson, D.W.
Ryan, James J.
Schroder, Charles
Schurtz, Carl
Seymour, Horatio
Shepherd-Moore, Marie
Solarz, Stephen
St. John, Francis R.
Storrs, Richard Salter
Tilton, Theodore
Tredwell, Daniel
Trommer, Marie
Tuckman, William
Tuttle, Horace
Vaux, Calvert
Vogel, Herb and Dorothy
Weber, David
Weinstein, Gregory
Weston, Charles B.
White, Alfred Tredway
Whitman, Walt
Wibecan, George E.
Willis, Louis C.
Wright, Samuel D.
Zabriskie Family
Borough Hall
Bridges
Scope and Contents
Includes Brooklyn Battery Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Meeker Avenue Bridge, Thirteenth Avenue Bridge, Verrazano Bridge (Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge), and Williamsburg Bridge.
Brooklyn Bridge
Construction and opening
Images
Centennial, 1983
Scope and Contents
Books, pamphlets, cards, invitations, tickets, commemorative postage stamp, flyers, news releases.
Brighton Beach
Scope and Contents
Including Brighton Beach Music Hall.
Brooklyn Academy of Design
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Scope and Contents
Mailings, pamphlets and flyers, reports and newsletters.
Japanese House
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights Association
Apprentices' Library
Brooklyn Library
Brooklyn Mercantile Library
Scope and Contents
This folder contains one item: a permanent membership certificate issued to Henry E. Pierrepont.
Brooklyn Navy Yard
[U.S.S.] Monitor
Brooklyn Public Library
Scope and Contents
Book cards, lists, plates and pockets; Brooklyn Collection; call slips, stickers, and labels; career opportunities; cataloging and Book Ops; exhibits and programs; forms; gala programs; history; manual; library cards, guides, and directories; marketing campaigns; mousepads; summer reading.
Branches
Scope and Contents
Includes Arlington, Astral, Bedford, Borough Park, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Brownsville Children's [now Stone Avenue], Bushwick, Business Library, Carroll Park [now Carroll Gardens], Dekalb, Eastern Parkway, Flatbush, Fort Hamilton, Greenpoint, Kings Highway, Macon, Mapleton, Montague, New Utrecht, Pacific, Park Slope, Prospect, Red Hook, Ridgewood, Saratoga, Sheepshead Bay, South Branch (Sunset Park), Tompkins Park, Walt Whitman, and Williamsburg.
Bulletin
Central Library
Scope and Contents
Includes Centennial Gala program, collection guides, equipment and receipts, Ingersoll Library (Includes scrapbook "Publicizing a New Building"), Writers Circle, and Youth Wing.
"F.Y.I" staff newsletter
Brooklyn Public Library Foundation
Brownsville
Scope and Contents
"A Post-War Plan for Brownsville," Brownsville Boys Club for the Betterment of Youth, Brownsville Community Council, Brownsville Tomorrow maps.
Bush Terminal
Bushwick
Scope and Contents
Includes Duryea House.
Business and industry
Scope and Contents
Includes the following businesses: ACME Sales Co.; ACME Smoked Salmon; Adams Express Company; Ajax Chemical Fire Engine; Arkenau Co.; Austin, Nichols & Co.; Automobile Supply Manufacturing Co.; Baker & Fox; Baker, H.J. & Bro.; Balch Price Co. (furs); H. Batterman Co.; E.W. Bliss Co.; Bohannan, Wilson; Broadway Tea House; Brooklyn Brew Shop; Brooklyn Lace Paper Works; Brooklyn Lock Company; Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange; Bushwick and Newtown; Central Supply Co.; The Chat; Chrome Steel Co.; Cohn's Credit Clothing Co.; Colonial Works Inc.; Community Bookstore; Consumers Malted Milk Company; Convisers' Uneeda Credit Clothing Co.; Day's Style Shop; DeMilt, Wilburt; Doxsee's Little Neck Clam Products; Dunlap & Co. (hats); Ebinger; Empire Stores; Force, Wm A. & Co; Gardiner-Lucas Licorice Co.; Gleason-Tiebout Glass Company; Graham Chemical Pottery Works; Gumpert, S. & Co.; Hall-Mark Electrical Sales Co.; Hammett, J.L. Co.; Hammond, C.S. & Co.; Julius J. Heinrich (floriculture); Herwig, P.C. and Co.; Holliston Mills, Inc.; Houchin's Machine Works; Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.; Ingersoll Paint/Patron's Paint Works Inc.; Jessal Co.; Kason Hardware Corporation; Kissel, John & Son; La Rosa and Sons, Inc.; Long Island Express Company; Masury, John W. & Sons; Mergenthaler Linotype Company; Metropolitan Greenhouses; Miller, William P. Company; Modern Biscuit Corporation; Murray, W.H.; New York Saw Works, Inc.; New York Stamping Co.; Nurnberg Thermometer Co.; Oppenheim, Collins & Co.; Orange Outdoor Advertising; P. Freel; Pioneer Instrument Co.; Potdevin Machine Co.; Read, Gleason and Read; Reid's Union Dairy, Inc.; Renken, M.H. Dairy Co.; Rikers Laboratories; Robbins, D. & Co.; Roberts Numbering Machine Company; Roehrig-Bielenberg Co.; Rosenberg & Son: Men's, Boys' and Children's Clothing; Rotary File Co.; Sacol Laboratory; Schaefer & Budenberg; Smith, Willard H.; Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc.; Stern's Pastry Shop; Sternau, S. & Co.; Stimpson, Edwin B. Company; Sturtevant Overin Co., Inc.; Tagliabue, C. J. Mfg. Co.; Tension Envelope Co.; Treat Company; Trunz Meat Stores; Union Porcelain Works (Greenpoint); Urban Oyster; Vitagraph Company of America; Vogel, William, & Bros.; Walker, A.H.; Ward Baking Company; Waterbury Cordage; Wechsler and Abraham (see also Stores and Shops: Abraham & Straus); Williams, George A. and Son; Woodhouse, J.S. Company; Zeman Brothers.
Advertising
Scope and Contents
Consumer goods; cookbooks; grocers, markets, and bakeries; labels; manufacturing; matchbooks; services.
Breweries
Scope and Contents
Includes John F. Trommer, Inc.; Long Island Bottling Company; Olde Keg Brewing Co., Inc.; Otto Huber Brewery; Piel Brothers; and Welz & Zerweck's High Ground Brewery.
Brooklyn Brewery
Liebmann Brewery, Inc. (Rheingold)
Schaefer Brewing Co.
Business and industry: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes Hammond, C.S. & Co.; Munke Jack Corporation; Schiercke, Henry C.; Sleepwell Metal Bed Co.; South Brooklyn Steam Engine and Boiler Works, and Warshavsky & Cohen.
Economy
Scope and Contents
Crain's "Brooklyn Market Focus" supplement, 1990.
Factories
Scope and Contents
American Sugar Refinery, Benjamin Moore paint, Brooklyn Flint Glass Works, Consolidated Macaroni, Demaco, E. Greenfield's Son & Co. (candy), Jennings Lace Works, Refined Macaroni.
Fulton Street photographers
Markets
Scope and Contents
Wallabout Market.
Restaurant and food industry
Restaurant and food industry: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes Kresner Butter & Egg Co. / Kresner's Poultry Farms and National Sausage Casing Dealer's Association.
Menus
Scope and Contents
Includes Alumni Association of Boys High School; Ben Maksik's Roadside; Brooklyn Eagle Home Guild; Brooklyn Union Gas Co. Dinner; Café Troy; Cairo Inn; Candlelight Restaurant; Chicken Delight; Citizens of Brooklyn, Auspices of the Brooklyn League; Clam Bar and Restaurant; Company 'C' 13th Regiment; Cooky's Steak Pubs Inc.; Embassy Club; Executive Dinner Tours; F.W.I.L. Lundy Bros.; Feltmans Arcade Restaurant; Flavia Seafood; Foffe Restaurant; Gage and Tollner; Golden Nut Restaurant; Hettel's Steaks and Chops; Hotel Touraine; Kiefer Catering Co.; Lane's Original Irish House; Lassen & Hennigs; Lichee Nut; Merit Farms; Montauk Club; Municipal Club of Brooklyn; Nanatori; Non Brooklyn Restaurants; Pizza Dee-Lite; Prospect Heights Citizens Association; Receiving Ship at New York; Savoy; Talmud Torah Aitz Chaim; Tang's; Testimony Dinner for Archbishop Thomas Molloy; United States Coast Guard Brooklyn Barracks; Veteran Association of the 13th Regiment; and Villepigue's Inn.
Menus: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes J. & M. Restaurant; McGinnis of Sheepshead Bay; Officers of the 14th Regiment and col. Herman Metz; Otjen's Restaurant and Sea Grill; and Savoy.
Old Williamsburg Whiskey
Restaurants
Scope and Contents
Includes Bogota Latin Bistro, C'est La Vie Lounge, Gage & Tollner, Juniors, The Imperial, and Once Upon A Sundae.
Stores and shops
Scope and Contents
Includes A&P (Atlantic & Pacific), Charles Gomer's Sons, John Paret & Co., King's/A.H. King Co., Loeser's, and Martin's.
Abraham & Straus
Calendars
Canarsie
Carroll Gardens
Celebrations
Scope and Contents
Includes Carnivals, Anniversary Day, Brooklyn and Long Island Fair (1864), Brooklyn Anniversaries, Centennial of Inauguration of George Washington (1889), and West Indian Day Parade/Carnival.
Gay Pride
Cemeteries
Scope and Contents
Including Evergreens and Jewish cemeteries.
Greenwood Cemetery
Children
Day care agencies
Juvenile delinquency
Civic Center
Scope and Contents
Master plan.
Clinton Hill
Clubs
Scope and Contents
Amersfort Council, Order of United American Mechanics; Anvil Chorus; Apollo Club; Assembly Regular Club; Aurora Grata Club; B.P.O. Elks: Brooklyn Lodge No. 22; Blessed Sacrament Club; Brooklyn Bird Club; Brooklyn Camera Club; Brooklyn Club; Brooklyn League; Brooklyn Negro Civic Corporation; Brooklyn Poetry Circle; Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club; Brooklyn Riding Club; Brooklyn Rowing Club; Brooklyn Single Tax Club; Brooklyn Women's Club; Brooklyn Young Republicans Club; Congress of West Indian American Organizations; Cortelyou Club; Court Gravesend; Crescent Athletic Club; East Brooklyn Union Campaign Club; East Midwood Civic Association; Franklin Literary Society; Friendly Sons of St. Patrick; Germania Club; Grand Army of the Republic; Hamilton Club; Hanover Club; International Order of Odd Fellows (Amersfort Council); Invincible Club; Kings County Democratic Club; Kings County Medical Society; Knickerbocker Field Club; Laurence Social Club; Masonic; Membership cards – Betts Family, 1896-1945; Midwood Club; Montauk Club; Mrs. Field's Literary Club; Municipal Club; National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Brooklyn Club; National Provident Union; New England Society in the City of Brooklyn; New Utrecht Liberty Pole Association; New York Civil Liberties Union Brooklyn Chapter; Osborne Club; Oxford Club; Rembrandt Club; Rhodes, John W. Social Club; Riding and Driving Club of Brooklyn; Rotary Club; Seidl Society; Society of Old Brooklynites; South Brooklyn Community Club; St. Nicholas Society; St. Patrick Society; Union Course Civil Association; Union League Club; Unionists' Association; Utrecht Council; Williamsburg Luncheon Club; Wings Club (yearbook 1950-51).
Atlantic Yacht Club
Cobble Hill
Coney Island
Scope and Contents
Includes Improvement Ground Breaking Ceremony and New York Aquarium.
Crown Heights
Domestic life
Pets
Downtown Brooklyn
Drugs
Scope and Contents
Two 1951 reports: Committee on Use of Narcotics Among Teen Age Youth and Mayor's Committee on Drug Addiction.
Dumbo
East New York
Flatbush
Scope and Contents
Includes the view book Brooklyn's Garden: Views of Picturesque Flatbush by Charles Ditmas, 1908 (library copies under call number 917.4723 D615 B and an additional archival copy under call number V1986.019); Flatbush Avenue; Flatbush Historical Society; Flatbush-Nostrand Chamber of Commerce; and Houses.
Fort Greene
Fort Hamilton
Gay communities
Genealogy
Gerritsen Beach
Government
Board of Education
Board of Elections
Scope and Contents
Acts and Instructions for Registers and Instructors
Board of Health
Board of Transportation
Brooklyn Bicentennial Commission
Brooklyn Borough President
Scope and Contents
Includes annual reports (Brooklyn Progress) from 1936, 1938, 1947-1951, 1953-1957, 1960-61, and 1965-1968.
Civil Defense
Scope and Contents
Annual reports and manuals.
Citizens Budget Commission
Scope and Contents
Annual reports and press releases.
Chamber of Commerce
County Clerks Office
Courts
Scope and Contents
Appellate Division, Supreme Court; Court of Special sessions of the City of New York (annual report); Domestic Relations Court reports; judicial statistics; Kings County Circuit Court; Kings County Grand Jurors Association; Supreme Court Kings County.
Department of Finance
Department of Health
Fire Department
Scope and Contents
Includes fire engines and volunteer firemen.
Hall of Records
Juvenile Aid Bureau
New York City Public Development Corporation
Scope and Contents
Report on Brooklyn.
Old town records
Public Health
Seals
Scope and Contents
City of Brooklyn, City of Williamsburgh, and Kings County.
Governor's Island
Gowanus
Scope and Contents
Gowanus Bay, Old Stone House, Miss Gowanus (facsimile of artist's book, 1996).
Gowanus Canal
Scope and Contents
Including an aerial survey.
Grand Army Plaza
Scope and Contents
Including Design Trust for Public Space.
Gravesend
Scope and Contents
Including Lake House, Van Sicklen House, and Hook & Ladder.
Greenpoint
Scope and Contents
Including Peter Cooper's Row.
History
Scope and Contents
Including Civil War and Dutch.
Black history
Brooklyn History Fair
Revolutionary War: Battle of Brooklyn/Long Island
World War II
World War I
Hospitals
Scope and Contents
Beth Moses Hospital; Beth-El Hospital; Brookdale Hospital Medical Center; Brooklyn Cancer Hospital; Brooklyn Eye & Ear Hospital; Brooklyn Home for Consumptives; Brooklyn Hospital; Brooklyn Jewish Hospital; Brooklyn State Hospital; Coney Island Hospital; Fort Hamilton Veteran's Hospital; Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn; Jewish Sanitarium Hospital for Chronic Diseases; King's County Hospital; Kingston Avenue Hospital; Long Island College Hospital; Methodist Episcopal Hospital; Norwegian Hospital; St. Charles Orthopedic; St. Mary's Hospital; St. Peter's Hospital; William McKinley Memorial Hospital; Williamsburg Pediatric Specialty Center (Schneider Children's Hospital).
Hotels
Scope and Contents
Includes Bossert, Brighton Beach, Mohawk and St. George.
Houses
Scope and Contents
Including Martense Homestead.
Litchfield Villa
Wyckoff House
Housing
Scope and Contents
Including Brownsville, Concord Village Project, Cooper Park Houses, Fort Greene, Gowanus Houses, Grand Jury Fire Investigation, Howard Houses, Jamaica Bay Emergency, Riverside Buildings, Van Dyke Houses, and Wallabout Houses.
Indigenous People: Land Acknowledgement
Invitations and greeting cards
Scope and Contents
Including for Bar Mitzvahs, holidays, and weddings.
Kings County Penitentiary
Labor unions
Scope and Contents
Including Building Trades Employers' Association and Empire Protective Association.
Long Island Historical Society/Brooklyn Historical Society
Marine Park
Memorials
Scope and Contents
Memorial at Verdun.
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch
Midwood
Military
Veterans
Committee for the Erection of a Veteran's Hospital
Mill Basin
Scope and Contents
Including Harbor and Schenk Homestead.
Miss Brooklyn Beauty Contest
Municipal Building
Museums
Scope and Contents
Includes Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (including "Our Brooklyn" by Ralph Foster Weld and Edward S. Curtis lecture), Brooklyn Museum (including Brooklyn artists and Community Gallery), Eden Musee, Greenpoint Monitor Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Museums: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes Greenpoint Monitor Museum.
Newspapers and periodicals
Scope and Contents
Holiday magazine Brooklyn feature, June 1950; Business Week article on Brooklyn, 1953; Fund Raiser magazine, 1966; publication announcement from The Lantern: A Magazine of Poetry (located on Montague Street), circa mid-1900s; New York Times "The Miracle of Brooklyn" supplement, 1988; Newsday Magazine Brooklyn features, 1988 and 1989; Brooklyn: A Magazine of the Other City, Fall 1989; Brooklyn Paper Publications "Brooklyn's Best Awards" program, 1990; Daily News "Brooklyn: The City of Neighborhoods" supplement, 1990.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, The Different Digest / Brooklyn Digest Magazine, 1946-1947, inclusive
Scope and Contents
March, May, July, September 1946 titled Brooklyn: The Different Digest. November 1946 and January-February 1947 titled Brooklyn Digest Magazine.
NRG Magazine, 2004
Scope and Contents
"The Pulse of Brooklyn."
Park Slope Reader, Summer 2007 and Spring 2009, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Also covers Prospect Heights and Windsor Terrace.
New Utrecht
Scope and Contents
Including Van Pelt Manor.
Office buildings
Scope and Contents
Including Central and Old Sun buildings.
Organizations
Scope and Contents
Includes American Institute of Architects, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Bedford-Stuyvesant Beautification Association, Black American Roots Society, Brooklyn Art Association, Brooklyn Athletic Association, Brooklyn Art Guild, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Employee's Association, Brooklyn Library Council, Brooklyn Sunday School Union, Brownstone Revival Coalition, Community Boards, Greek Letter Societies Phi Sigma Chi, Greensward Foundation Inc., Hadassah Central (Brooklyn chapter), Heart of Brooklyn, Homecrest Community Services, International Brick Collectors' Association, Italian Historical Society of America, Italian Mutual Aid Society Flower of Boro Park, Knights of Temperance, Magnolia Tree Earth Center, Medical, Brooklyn Tuberculosis & Respiratory Disease Association, Medical Society of the County of Kings, New York Library Club, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, Sorosis, Triangle Parks Flatbush Avenue Improvement Committee, Triple Canopy, United Boys Brigade of America, United Nations Association of Brooklyn, United Regular Democratic Organization, United States Naval Armed Guard Center, Visiting Nurse Association of Brooklyn, Wyckoff House and Association, YMCA (including Prospect Park branch), Youth organizations, and YWCA.
American Red Cross
Better Brooklyn Committee
Boy Scouts
Brooklyn Communication Arts Professionals (BCAP)
Brooklyn Information and Culture (BRIC)
Celebrate Brooklyn!
Welcome Back to Brooklyn festival
Brooklyn Parents Music & Culture Committee
Citizens Union
Heart of Brooklyn
Landmarks Preservation Commission
Lefferts Manor Association
Scope and Contents
Including History of Community, March 1938.
Long Island Association
New England Society in Brooklyn
Park Slope
Parks
Scope and Contents
Including Canarsie Pier, Dyker Beach, Fort Greene Park, and Prospect Park.
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Gateway National Recreation Area
Politics
Scope and Contents
Includes Badillo, Herman; Central Brooklyn Mobilization for Political Action; Communist Party; Independent Progressive Politics Network; Low, Seth; Mailer / Breslin; Millman, Joan; NY State; Progressive Labor Party; Revolutionary Youth League; and United Taxpayers Party.
Campaigns
Portraits
Scope and Contents
Includes Beecher, Henry Ward; Buchalter, Louis; Corse Payton Theatre Company; Fulton, Robert; Griswold, Stephen; Lord Sterling (Alexander, William); Macmonnies, Frederick W.; Moses, Robert; Roebling, John A.; Roebling, Washington A.; and Vogel, William.
Post Office
Scope and Contents
Including "Facts and Figures of Your Brooklyn Post Office."
Prospect Heights
Recreation and leisure
Scope and Contents
Recreation Survey.
Dances and parties
Scope and Contents
Fliers, invitations, programs and menus.
Red Hook
Religious life
Scope and Contents
Including Judaism and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Diocese of Long Island
Temples and synagogues
Scope and Contents
Includes Congregation Ahavas Israel, H.E.A. of Greenpoint; Congregation Beth Jehuda; Congregation Sons of Judah; and Union Temple.
Temples and synagogues: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes Naomi Lodge B'nai B'rith.
Churches
Scope and Contents
Ainslie Street (Presbyterian); All Saints Afro-American Catholic Church & Community Center; All Saints (Episcopal); All Souls Universalist; Arlington Ave. (Presbyterian); Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs; Baptist Temple; Beecher Memorial Church; Bensonhurst Presbyterian; Bethany Baptist; Bethany Chapel (Reformed Episcopal); Bethany Presbyterian Church; Bethel Seventh Day Adventist; Bethlehem Evangelical; Bethlehem United Church of Christ; Brooklyn City Mission (and Tract Society); Brooklyn Tabernacle; Bushwick Avenue Congregational Church; Bushwick Central M.E. Church; Bushwick Dutch Reform Church; Bushwick Reformed Dutch Church (Old); Canarsie Reformed Church; Cathedral Basilica of St. James; Central Congregational; Central Methodist Episcopal; Central Presbyterian; Church of Good Tidings (Universalist); Church of Holy Trinity (Episcopal); Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Church of the Messiah and Incarnation; Church of the Pilgrim (Congregationalist); Church of the Transfiguration; Emmanuel Baptist; Epiphany (Lutheran); First Presbyterian; First Presbyterian City Park Branch; Flatbush (Reformed); Flatbush Christian (Disciples of Christ); Flatbush Congregational; Flatlands Dutch Reformed; Fleet Street (Methodist Episcopal); Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Scientist); German Evangelical (Lutheran); Goodsell Memorial (Methodist Episcopal); Grace Church (Episcopal); Grace Gospel Church; Grace Presbyterian; Grace Reformed Church of Flatbush; Grace United Methodist Church; Gravesend Reformed; Greenwood Baptist Church; Hanson Place Methodist; Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist; Holy Cross Roman Catholic; Jane's (Methodist); King's Highway Congregational; Lafayette Avenue (Presbyterian); Lefferts Park Baptist; Marcy Avenue Baptist; Messiah (Protestant Episcopal); Methodism: Journal of the New York East Conference; New Utrecht Reformed Church; Our Lady of Consolation; Our Lady of Good Counsel; Our Lady of Loreto; Our Lady of Lourdes; Our Lady of Mercy; Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Parkville Congregational Church; Plymouth Church of Pilgrims (United Church of Christ); Presbyterian General; Prospect Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church; Redeemer (Baptist); Redeemer (Episcopal); Redemption Church of Christ; Reformed General; Regina Pacis Votive Shrine; Salem Baptist; Salem Danish (Lutheran); Simpson (Methodist Episcopal); Sixth Avenue (Methodist Episcopal); South (Congregational); South Third Street (Presbyterian); Spencer Memorial Church (Presbyterian); St. Agnes; St. Ann's Episcopal; St. Athanasius Church (Roman Catholic); St. Augustine's Church (Episcopal); St. Bartholomew; St. Bernadette; St. Catherine of Alexandria, V.M.; St. Frances de Chantal; St. Francis of Assisi; St. George's (Protestant Episcopal); St. Grace Protestant Chapel; St. Ignatius; St. James (Protestant Episcopal); St. John's (Episcopal); St. John's the Evangelist; St. Luke & St. Mathew (Episcopal); St. Luke's (Lutheran); St. Mark's (Methodist); St. Mark's Congregational Church; St. Mary's (Episcopal); St. Mathew's (Lutheran) [Canarsie]; St. Mathew's (Lutheran) [Park Slope]; St. Paul's (Episcopal); St. Paul's (Methodist Episcopal); St. Paul's (Protestant Episcopal); St. Paul's (Swedish Lutheran); St. Peter's (Episcopal); St. Peter's (German Evangelical Lutheran); St. Stephen's (Lutheran); St. Thomas's (Protestant Episcopal); Sunday School; Trinity Holy Church; Twelfth Street Reformed; Union Baptist Church; Union of Bay Ridge (Presbyterian); Washington Avenue Baptist Church; Westminster United Presbyterian Church.
Congregational Association of New York and Brooklyn
Monasteries and convents
Sea Gate
Sewage
Sheepshead Bay
Social welfare
Scope and Contents
Includes ASPCA, Brooklyn Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Brooklyn Bureau of Social Service, Brooklyn Caregivers Resources Committee, Brooklyn Children's Aid Society, Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, Brooklyn Home for the Aged, Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, Brooklyn Industrial School and Home for Destitute Children, Brooklyn Teen Challenge, Flatbush Boys Club, Hebrew Educational Society, Homes and Shelters, Juvenile Temperance Society, National League for Women's Service, Orphan Asylum Society of the City of Brooklyn, Royal Arcanum, Settlement Houses Colony House, Southern Relief Committee, Towarzystwo Wzajemnej Pomocy – St. Malachowskiego, and Young Women's Christian Association (Y.W.C.A.).
Homes and shelters
Scope and Contents
Includes Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, Congregational Home for the Aged, Graham Home for Old Ladies, Home for Destitute Children, and Industrial Home for the Blind.
Social welfare: oversize
Scope and Contents
Includes Poor Peoples Campaign (1968).
Sports
Baseball
Scope and Contents
Includes Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn players in National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and Washington Park.
Brooklyn Cyclones
Ebbets Field
Basketball
Scope and Contents
Brooklyn Nets.
Brooklyn Ice Palace
Cycling
Martial Arts
Roller Derby
Scope and Contents
Gotham Girls.
Schaffer's Adonis Health Club
Sheepshead Bay Race Track
Sport Prospect
Streets
Scope and Contents
Includes Atlantic Avenue.
Eastern Parkway
Newkirk Avenue
Sunset Park
Theaters
Scope and Contents
Including Kings Theaters.
Tourist information
Scope and Contents
Including road maps.
Brooklyn description and travel
Brooklyn Now guides
Neighborhood guides
Transportation
Scope and Contents
Brooklyn Union Ferry Co.; Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Coney Island Railway; Flatbush Avenue Line bus ticket; Fulton St. "L" (elevated train), 1916; Floyd Bennett Field; Interborough Parkway; IRT/Flushing Line press release, 1950; Manhattan Beach; subway and bus maps; trolleys.
Belt Parkway
Scope and Contents
Sheepshead Bay section.
Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co.
Ferries: Fulton
Railroads
Scope and Contents
Including els (elevated railroads), Long Island Railroad (LIRR), and tickets.
Traffic
Transit history
Tunnels
Scope and Contents
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and renderings.
Utilities
Scope and Contents
Includes Brooklyn Edison Co., Brooklyn Gas Light Co., Brooklyn Union Gas Co., Coney Island Sewage Treatment Works, Consolidated Edison (Con Ed), Edison Electric Illuminating Company, and New York Telephone Company.
Wallabout Channel
Waterfront
Docks and piers
Scope and Contents
New York Dock Co.; reports, 1950-1952.
