#bhsarchives

What a fun find! #Repost @brooklynhistory with @get_repost ・・・ Do you ever find yourself craving a certain snack, only to realize that you bought it the day before and it’s already waiting there for your future self? Sometimes #history is a little like that… . . . . . In 1865, someone grabbed an assortment of #newspaper to use as padding between lithographs and their frames; this was a nice surprise for the staff at BHS 150 years in the future! Thanks, past-Brooklynites! . . . . . Thanks to our “Revealing Long Island History” project, BHS's collections staff has been painstakingly inventorying and processing everything from artifacts to paintings to works on paper like this one. . . . . . Newspapers from 1865, found in the back of lithograph frames during the RLIH Collection project. . . . . . #BHSArchives #NoFilter #BrooklynHistory #PastLives #Journalism #Newspaper #NewYorkTimes #NewYorkWeekly https://www.instagram.com/p/B4i7tc4AJ0M/?igshid=1nmfiyxva3hgf

#Repost @brooklynhistory with @repostapp ・・・ Get a close-up look at grassroots resilience. The photo of the week is an image from the Bernard Gotfryd color slides and photographs collection that depicts people cleaning up a courtyard in the #EastNewYork neighborhood of Brooklyn. Gotfryd was a photojournalist, trained to tell stories through photographs. This photograph stands out for many reasons: the composition, the charming detail of the kids in the window, but also the powerful story it tells about East New York. This Brooklyn neighborhood was hit hard by 20th century urban decline, segregation, and deindustrialization and this photograph depicts one example of the #grassroots efforts by the community to clean up the neighborhood. Bernard Gotfryd was a professional photographer and staff photojournalist at Newsweek for over 30 years, and was a fascinating individual throughout his lifetime. He was born in Poland in 1924 and entered a photography apprenticeship at the start of WWII. He became involved with the Polish resistance and was later imprisoned for his involvement. By the end of the war, he had survived imprisonment in six different concentration camps. In 1945, he immigrated to the United States and continued his photography pursuit while serving in the U.S. Army. Gotfryd traveled all over the world while working at Newsweek, documenting people, places, and events. At BHS, we have 174 photographs by Gotfryd. This collection is not digitized, but we would love for you to visit the Othmer Library and view this collection in person! #BHSArchives #PhotoOfTheWeek #POTW #tbt #ThrowbackThursday #OldBrooklyn #NoFilter #VintagePhotography #OldPhotos #OldPhotography #community #neighbors #neighborhood #resilience [East New York courtyard.], 1970 ca, v1987.3.6; Bernard Gotfryd color slides and photographs, v1987.3; Brooklyn Historical Society.

#Repost @brooklynhistory with @repostapp ・・・ Lucille Fornasieri Gold's eye for #brooklynlife is irreplaceable. She recognized the offbeat, tender, hysterical, beautiful, and human in scenes throughout Brooklyn, and her photographs will forever be emblematic of Brooklyn's diverse communities and culture. It is with great sadness that we share that Lucille recently passed away, so in remembrance, this #PhotofotheWeek is one of the many in our collection that we love. If you want to see more of her work, check out our online image gallery from our website! [link in profile] #tbt #throwbackthursday #prospectpark #trumpeter #brooklyn #brooklynhistory #oldbrooklyn #oldnewyork #nofilter #parkbench #blackandwhite #BHSarchives #oldphotos #vintagephoto [Prospect Park trumpeter], circa 1975, V2008.013.81; Lucille Fornasieri Gold photographs, 2008.013; Brooklyn Historical Society.

Glenda Mervil, Mentor & Teen Innovator

“I do feel more welcome because everyone was just so homey.”

“I learn that many of the abolitionist were really like secretive and abolitionist is also a new word.”

During the course of seven weeks, we learned about activists of the past in Brooklyn, and current activists throughout the United States. We wrote letters to activists of the past and present. Here are some of our letters.

Today we were visited by the Navy Yard employees, Nicole Tarpi, Counsel, Elliot Matz, Chief Operating Officer, EVP,  and Shani Leibowitz, Senior Vice President, Development and Planning. They were up to answer questions we had for them as well as give advice for our up and coming future. We believe the best advice they gave use was to follow are passion no matter what it is. It’s better to do something you love and not get paid as much as doing something that pays a lot of many but it’s something that you can’t stand. The major take away we got from this is have a sense of perseverance. No matter how hard it gets, we have to push through the obstacles. With that mind set we will all grow to do great things and we’re glad these amazing people taught us that today