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Coney Island

Coney Island

Snapshot views of Coney Island.
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Knickerbocker Field Club

Knickerbocker Field Club

Exterior view of the Knickerbocker Field Club, located in Flatbush. The club was built in 1892 and...
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Tieing up traffic

Tieing up traffic

Group of mothers, many with children and strollers and some with signs, standing in roadway before...
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[View of east side of 8th Avenue.]

[View of east side of 8th Avenue.]

View of east side of 8th Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets looking north. n.e. cor. 16th Street...
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[N.E. corner of 63rd Street.]

[N.E. corner of 63rd Street.]

N.E. corner of 63rd Street (left) and 13th Avenue.
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Time out

Time out

Caption: "Time out--Taking it easy after a fast square dance are, left to right, Elizabeth Fitter,...
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[Lifeboats]

[Lifeboats]

Lifeboats at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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The Brooklyn Visual Heritage website provides access to a newly digitized corpus of 19th and 20th century photographs and other visual materials drawn from the rich collections of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library. The digitization and the design of the website were accomplished through Project CHART, a collaborative partnership with Pratt School of Information and Library Science. We invite you to explore and use this new online resource intended to serve scholars, historians and the general public of all ages, to engage with Brooklyn’s historic past and make connections to its present diverse and vibrant culture and to visit the cultural institutions the website represents for a total Brooklyn experience.

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