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We lost tremendous amount of talent in 2016. Let’s remember them young, vibrant and beautiful: Zsa Zsa Gabor (with sisters), Debbie Reynolds, George Gaynes, Steven Hill, Alan Young and Fyvush Finkel.

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Today is the National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. This is a small sampler from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle photo archives.
All of them show either immediate aftermath or the long echo of the Day of Infamy.
Almost all of them came to the Eagle from the International Photo News Agency.Â
For Veteran’s Day - Joseph E. Darrow who lost his life at 16 at the Battle of Bull Run. He lived at 21 Johnson Street.
Happy retirement for Lucio Schiavone who operated the Prospect Park Carousel for the past 26 years.
For the 1944 election women formed the Brownsville Women’s Non-Partisan Committee For Registration

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One can bet that this year’s Halloween parade will be dominated by the likenesses of Trump, Hillary and Bernie. Before it is too late, here are some ideas from the Brooklyn Collection.
A Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s production “Letter to a Man” portraying the great - and insane - Vaclav Nijinsky is generated a heated discussion. These two drawings by Nijinsky himself were published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on November 25, 1937 under an upbeat title, “Drawings Likely to Restore Sanity to the Great Nijinsky”. They didn’t, but they are pretty amazing. (Please pardon the quality.)
Bill Powers, the Bridge aficionado and photographer, just made a donation of his gorgeous Brooklyn Bridge photographs to the Brooklyn Collection.
These images came to the library through a Culture-in-Transit project, “Our Streets, Our Stories”. If you are interested in developing a similar project, the toolkit offers wealth of resources and ideas.
This evening we’re honored to have author Michael Woodsworth in the Brooklyn Collection discussing his new book “Battle for Bed-Stuy” at 7:00 p.m. Wine and cheese at 6:30.

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These images came to the library through a Culture-in-Transit project, “Our Streets, Our Stories”. If you are interested in developing a similar project, the toolkit offers wealth of resources and ideas.
If you are in Brooklyn tomorrow evening, please join us at the Brooklyn Collection for a book presentation. Michael Woodsworth introduces his book “Battle for Bed-Stuy”. The program will start at 7 pm in the Brooklyn Collection (2nd floor of the Central library), but we will start with our famous wine-and-cheese reception at 6:30 pm).
Brooklyn heartthrobs, funny men and tough guys. These images from the Brooklyn Collection vaults show film and stage actors who were born in Brooklyn.
Since becoming an archivist, I’ve been passionate about audiovisual materials. So I was thrilled when I saw the phenomenal audiovisual collection of over 2,300 items in the Brooklyn Museum’s Archives. In our post from two weeks ago we introduced Julio, our fall intern NYU’s MIAP program, who is helping with this unique collection to make it more accessible. In preparation for his arrival I was physically reviewing the audiovisual collection, and during this process, I noticed a box that had “Brooklyn Progress 35mm Nitrate” written on it. I checked the edge code and there it was: NITRATE.
Nitrate is a type of film base that was used from the 1880s to the 1950s but its use was discontinued because it is highly flammable. I knew that we had to take immediate action and to get this film to another institution which has the specified storage requirements so the film could be preserved. We immediately contacted our Conservation Department and transferred the film  to an isolated temperature and humidity controlled environment.
After contacting many other archives, I found that the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Department has what appears to be the only other copy. After much discussion we decided to donate our copy of the film to the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus for Audiovisual Conservation. We spoke with George Willeman, Nitrate Vault Manager, and Mike Mashon, Head of the Moving Image Section, and they offered to take on the film.
The next step was to figure out what this film was and whether it was held in any other institutions. Luckily my colleague Diana Bowers, Archivist at the Brooklyn Public Library, was able to identify the film when she located two articles about the film in the Brooklyn Eagle. The film was created in 1937 for Brooklyn Borough President Raymond Ingersoll’s reelection campaign. The film shows two fictional characters, Mr. and Mrs. Citizen, touring many public works projects that were underway to improve the infrastructure and quality of life in Brooklyn.
Last week I dropped the film off with George and toured their gorgeous facilities. Upon inspection of the film George realized that our copy is actually the original camera negative! Because of the historical value of the film, they promised to expedite digitizing the film. We are delighted and grateful that this cross-departmental effort and collaboration with an outside institution was such a success.
Posted by J.E. Molly SeegersÂ
The story of how a Brooklyn film made its way to the Library of Congress. Read more on our blog, Brooklynology.
One can bet that this year’s Halloween parade will be dominated by the likenesses of Trump, Hillary and Bernie. Before it is too late, here are some ideas from the Brooklyn Collection.

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Desperadoes of yesteryear... Full gamut in age and in a crime of choice. From a 16-year-old recidivist burglar to 111-year-old practitioner-without-a-license... New York (and Brooklyn) indeed never sleep. (All images are from the Brooklyn Public Library photo collections.)
Life is always, always more absurd than fiction. The last thing that would come to one's mind would be "women's undies" when you look at these mug shots. And yet... apparently there was a rather big criminal case which involved FBI and in which these four gentlemen were implicated. According to a news piece in a morning edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on July 30, 1953, the members of the "Panty Ring" (yes, indeed!), stole and disposed of $500,000 worth of women's underwear. Half a mil in 1953 would be more than four million these days. Who knew that undergarments was such a hot commodity back then?