Photograph collection, [ca.1879-1890]

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Photograph collection, [ca.1879-1890]

Lantern slides pertaining to Flatbush, Prospect Park, and the blizzard of 1888. Photographs are of buildings, street scenes, farms, portraits, and assorted activities. All slides are identified.

128 lantern slides.

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Martense, Adrian V. (Adrian Vanderveer), 1852-1898.

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Adrian Vanderveer Martense (1852-1898) was an amateur photographer who was a descendent of early Dutch settlers in Brooklyn. The Martense family were longtime residents of Flatbush, one of the original six towns of Brooklyn and today a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn comprised of numerous smaller neighborhoods including Midwood, Ditmas Park, Fiske Terrace, Beverly Square (East and West), Prospect Park South, Caton Park, and Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces. In Flatbush, the Marten...