Series II. Brooklyn postcard albums
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Includes the following Brooklyn places: Barren Island, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bedford Stuyvesant/Crown Heights, Bensonhurst, Bergen Beach, Borough Park, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brownsville, Bushwick, Camp Upton (Brooklyn) Annex, Canarsie, Clinton Hill, Coney Island (Dreamland, Luna Park, Steeplechase, Sea Gate, West Brighton, Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach), Cypress Hills, Downtown Brooklyn – City Hall [Borough Hall], Dyker Heights, East New York, Flatbush, Floyd Bennett Field, Fort Greene, Fort Hamilton, Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus, Gravesend, Homecrest, Lefferts Park, New Utrecht, Old Mill, Park Slope, Plum Beach, Prospect Park, Ridgewood [Brooklyn-Queens border], Sheepshead Bay, Sunset Park, Ulmer Park, and Williamsburg/East Williamsburg.
"Brooklyn #1"
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• Bay Ridge
• Fort Hamilton
• Sunset Park
"Brooklyn #2"
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• Brownsville (Ocean Hill, Somers Hall)
• Bushwick (Irving [Square] Park, Trommer's [Restaurant])
• Canarsie (Barren Island, Bergen Beach)
"Brooklyn #3"
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• Bath Beach
• Bedford Park [sic; Bedford Stuyvesant]/Crown H[eigh]ts
• (Lefferts Park)
• Somers Hall
• Clinton Hill
• Industrial [Home for the] Blind [perhaps International Sunshine Society Home for Blind Babies?]
• Bensonhurst
• Borough Park
• Bergen Beach [crossed out]
• [includes some Homecrest]
"Brooklyn #4A"
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• Flatbush #1
"Brooklyn #4B"
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• Flatbush #2
"Brooklyn #4B" [sic]
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• Gravesend
• Homecrest
• Dyker Heights
• Ulmer Park
• New Utrecht
• Homecrest [sic?]
• Park Slope
• Irving Park [crossed out]
• Gowanus
• Ridgewood
• Cypress Hills
• Evergreen
• Industrial Home for [the] Blind [not present; perhaps International Sunshine Society Home for Blind Babies? see "Brooklyn #3"]
• [includes views of Myrtle Avenue in Queens]
"Brooklyn #5"
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• Coney Island
"Brooklyn #6"
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Coney Island Book #2
• Beach Scenes
• Stauches [Stauch's Restaurant and Dance Hall; Stauch's Baths]
• Ravenhall [Baths]
• Shell Cards
• Livingston & Davidson
• Studio [Shots?]
• Brighton Beach
• Manhattan Beach
"Coney Island in Real Photo Postcards"
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• Dreamland – Luna Park – Steeplechase
• Brighton & Manhattan Beachs [sic] & Ravenhall [Baths]
"Coney Island: Dreamland Sideshow & Oddities"
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• Postcards of the various performers at the Dreamland Circus Sideshow on Coney Island.
"Brooklyn #7"
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• Bridges to Manhattan
• "Greetings From" Real Photos
• Trollies – Elevated – Subways
• Livingston/Strauss PMC [Private Mailing Cards]
• Downtown Bklyn – City Hall [Borough Hall]
• Brooklyn Heights & Hotels
• Theatres & Fire
"Brooklyn #8"
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• A&S [Abraham & Straus] series of store only
• Advertising: Stores, Restaurants, Trade Cards, Palm Garden, Automobile Linens, Truck Photos, Meetings (Clubs)
"Brooklyn #9"
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• Brooklyn Navy Yard
• YMCA – Salvation Army
• Hospitals
• Armories & Statues
"Brooklyn #10"
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• Parade Photos, Plus [or "PWS"?]
• Hoagland Band Photos
• Schools
• Church's [Churches]
"Brooklyn #11"
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• Sheepshead Bay – Plum Beach – Gerritsen Beach
• Sea Gate – Floyd Bennett [Field]
• Camp Upton (Bklyn) Annex
• Williamsburg/East W[illiamsburg].
• (Fort Greene – Clinton Hill)
[Brooklyn #?]
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• East New York
• Cypress Hills
• Old Mill
"#11A. Central Park and Prospect Park" [album also listed under Manhattan]
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• Postcards of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in the back half of an album which also holds postcards of Central Park, Manhattan.
"The Best of Brooklyn"
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Best of . . .
. . . Bridges to Brooklyn
. . . Brooklyn Department Stores
. . . Brooklyn Firematic
. . . Brooklyn Theater
. . . Brooklyn Trucks
. . . Bath Beach
. . . Bensonhurst
. . . Bay Ridge
. . . Fort Hamilton
. . . Bed-Stuy
. . . Borough Park
. . . Brownsville
. . . Brooklyn Heights
. . . Bushwick
. . . Canarsie
. . . East New York
. . . Flatbush
. . . Greenpoint
. . . Gravesend
. . . Park Slope
. . . Ridgewood
. . . Sheepshead Bay
. . . Sea Gate
. . . Williamsburg(h?)
. . . "Greetings From"
(Possibly assembled as a competition album.)
"Brooklyn Eagle Series"
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A series of 486 postcards of Brooklyn scenes issued by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper in 1905-1907. Three numbers are lacking:
314 | St. John's Evan. Lutheran Church, Maujer St.
419 | "Tunisian," of the Allan State Line
481 | Miss Blance [Blanche?] Bates and Mr. Frank Keenan in a Scene from "The Girl of the Golden West," the Shubert Theatre Attraction Week of May 27th [1907])
The New-York Historical Society also holds a complete set of these cards. For the full list of subjects, see the finding aid to the James Olinkiewicz Collection of Brooklyn Daily Eagle Postcards (PR-355).
"Book #18A. Hagemeister Series #2: Brooklyn and Bronx" [album also listed under Bronx]
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• Monotone and colored view postcards of Brooklyn, printed in Germany by the H. Hagemeister Company of New York, in the front half of an album also holding Hagemeister postcards of the Bronx. (For Hagemeister postcards of Manhattan, see Box 45.)