Modern slide collection, [ca. 1960]-1985.

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Modern slide collection, [ca. 1960]-1985.

Color slides of Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau and Suffolk counties. Primary subjects in Brooklyn include churches, neighborhoods, houses, Prospect Park, and Brooklyn Bridge. Other areas include the Bicentennial celebration, Fire Island, Shelter Island, Fort Totten in Queens. Also, slides of Brooklyn Historical Society collections and other slides of maps and prints. Most slides are identified.

ca. 3,000 slides.

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Center for Brooklyn History (2020-)

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The Center for Brooklyn History was founded in 1863 by Henry Pierrepont (1808–1888) as the Long Island Historical Society, with a charter from the New England Historical Society in Boston. In 1985, the society changed its name to the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS). In 2020, the BHS made an agreement to merge with the Brooklyn Public Library. As of October 2020, the organization is now part of Brooklyn Public Library and is known as the Center for Brooklyn History....