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Massive Historic Photo Archive Features Thousands Of Old Brooklyn Images
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 28, 2013
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"New park deck next to Brooklyn Bridge at Fulton Ferry Landing," 1975 (Courtesy Brooklyn Visual Heritage)
Three Brooklyn historical juggernauts—the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Brooklyn Historical Society—have joined forces to bring their photo archives together in one place, which they are calling Brooklyn Visual Heritage.
Subway construction on Eastern Parkway near Brooklyn Museum, 1920 (Courtesy Brooklyn Visual Heritage)
You can browse through the site's thousands and thousands of historic images—which include photographs (with a wide subject matter, from crime scene photos to street scenes), postcards, bridge construction documents, trade cards, and dense collections—including a set of the 1977 blackout.
Street scene under the elevated train in Bushwick, 1977 (Courtesy Brooklyn Visual Heritage)
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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