Broadside collection, 1753-[ca.1915], 1850-1870 (bulk)

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Broadside collection, 1753-[ca.1915], 1850-1870 (bulk)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155460507

Collection includes real estate promotional posters with maps of lots offered for sale detailing growth of Brooklyn, 1847-1901; auction posters for land, household items, and farm animals for Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island; Civil War notices for escaped slaves, draft evaders, recruitment for soldiers, anti-abolition material, and the Sanitary Fair; recruitment posters for World War I; store advertisements, 18th and 19th centuries; and playbills, one from 1753 for a theater in Brooklyn.

ca. 300 items.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6873480

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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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....

Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair, 1864.

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