Postcard album - Brooklyn views, [ca.1900-1969]

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Postcard album - Brooklyn views, [ca.1900-1969]

Album contains postcards with views of Brooklyn including street scenes, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Public Library, Greenwood Cemetery, Hotel St. George, the Soldiers and Sailors monument, and a series of Bay Ridge scenes. Also 7 photos taken by Ed Waterman in 1909 of the Brooklyn Museum, Borough Hall, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument illuminated at night.

1 v., ca. 70 postcards, 7 photos.

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Brooklyn public library

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Collecting area: Brooklyn history. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155457439 The Brooklyn Ephemera Collection contains a wide variety of material, mainly memorabilia, donated to the Brooklyn Public Library in the 1960s during a program conducted by the Library to encourage local interest in the history of Brooklyn. Since most of the items are unrelated, the chief value of the collection is to provide a kaleidescopic glimpse of t...

Greenwood Cemetery (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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Brooklyn Museum

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

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Waterman, Ed.

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