Lantern slide collection. Brooklyn scenes; buildings.

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Lantern slide collection. Brooklyn scenes; buildings.

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This folder includes photographs of a variety of subjects, taken in Brooklyn in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Types of buildings represented include hospitals, houses, churches, military structures, and industrial buildings. Included are images of the Long Island College Hospital buildings, the Williamsburg Houses, Gerrittsen's Mill, the Havemeyer Sugar Refinery, the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT), and the burning of Talmage's Tabernacle. Additionally, there are images of street scenes, parades, ferry boats, trolley cars and elevated railroad structures. Photographers include Julius Wilcox, M.C. Taylor, Myers R. Jones, James W. Kent, Dewitt L. Parker, W. Montgomery, Edward van Altena, E.J. Cockey, W.H. Bedford, Starks W. Lewis, Charles H. Morse, James H. Ferguson, William C. Peckham, and Gould W. Hart.

48 lantern slides ; 3.25 x 4"

Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives

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Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives

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The Brooklyn Museum's lantern slide collection was started by the museum's curator of fine arts, William Henry Goodyear, in the late nineteenth century. With the assistance of photographers Joseph Hawkes and John McKecknie, Goodyear reproduced images of archaeological and architectural sites in Europe and images of the Paris Exposition, which Hawkes often hand-colored for more realistic effect. The lantern slide collection developed, as well, through the efforts of curator of ethnology Stewart C...

Kent, James W., 1863-1961

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Cockey, E. J.

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Bedford, W. H.

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Parker, Dewitt L.

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Peckham, William C.

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Williamsburg Houses (New York, N.Y.)

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Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929.

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Culin was University of Pennsylvania museum director from 1892. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1892-1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226042711 Stewart Culin (1858-1929), ethnologist and museum curator, worked at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of archaeology and Anthropology from 1890 to 1903, and served as Curator of Ethnology at The Brooklyn Museum from 1903 until his death. From the descr...

Hart, Gould W.

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Ferguson, James H., 1913-2000

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James Ferguson worked for the Associated Press and was a resident of Portland, Oregon. He visited Alaska in 1948 (probably) and in 1950. The latter trip was as part of a press tour. He wrote several articles for the Oregonian on Alaska. From the description of Photograph negatives, 1948-1950. (UAA/APU Consortium Library). WorldCat record id: 58480225 ...

Story, W. H.

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Altena, Edward van.

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Goodyear, W.H. (William Henry), 1846-1923

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William Henry Goodyear (1846-1923) was an art and architectural historian and the Brooklyn Museum of Art's first Curator of Fine Arts from 1899-1923, an appointment he accepted soon after serving as curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1881-1888). In addition to his responsibilities of developing and maintaining the fine arts collection at the Museum, Goodyear published extensively on art history and pursued research in architectural history. He developed a theory, based on direc...

Taylor, M. Clare.

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Brooklyn Museum

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The origins of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences extend back to 1823, with the founding of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library. The Library, located at the corner of Cranberry and Henry Streets in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, was established for the education and cultural enrichment of young tradesmen. In 1841, the Library relocated to the building of the Brooklyn Lyceum, an organization devoted to intellectual pursuits in the arts and sciences, at the corner of Washington and C...

Wilcox, Julius, 1837-1924.

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Morse, Charles H.

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Montgomery, William, 1942-

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Lewis, Starks W.

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Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967

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Jones, Myers R.

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