Our Brooklyn presents short histories, facts and resource lists documenting Brooklyn's vibrant and diverse neighborhoods, from Sheepshead Bay to Sunset Park, from Bushwick to Bath Beach. As of 12/27/2008 the neighborhoods of Brighton Beach, Carroll Gardens, and Williamsburg were represented.

This Web site explores Brooklyn during the Civil War by presenting primary source documents — photographs, letters, newspaper articles, illustrations, and more — that show what life was like during this period. At the bottom of each page are links to information about this project created by the Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection, an online survey, and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902, a searchable repository of Brooklyn’s newspaper of record. The site is divided into 4 main themes: Soldiers, Women, Slavery, and Daily life.

Brooklyn Public Library's online catalog contains a selection of more than ten thousand historic photographs from the Brooklyn Collection. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Photograph Collection (c. 1900-1955) provides many of the images, documenting change and development in the urban environment throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The major categories of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs in the catalog include Bridges, Churches, Coney Island, Neighborhoods, Parks, Schools and the Eagle itself. Other collections created by amateur and professional photographers concentrate on particular areas, ethnic groups or activities.

This project was produced by Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection and funded by the Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that fosters innovation, leadership and a lifetime of learning. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. Because of the enormity of the collection, the digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper from reels of microfilm has been broken down into more than one phase. Phase I, which can at present be found on this site, covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. This period includes all of the years for which there is no index as well as the eleven years during which an index was published. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.

The Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection consists of 102 pieces of sheet music from 1869 to 1987, primarily for voice and piano, all celebrating or emanating from the borough of Brooklyn. Contents include marches written in honor of a local person or business, pieces celebrating the whole or a part of the borough, songs from shows and movies set in or about Brooklyn, and pieces from Brooklyn's early 20th-century Yiddish-language theater.

The Brooklyn Theater Playbills and Programs Collection is made up of approximately 800 items from the late 1880s until the 1940s. During this period, the performing arts thrived in Brooklyn. Please note that due to the scope and fragility of the collection, only a selection of covers from the collection have been digitized and are available online. In order to provide improved access, a complete finding aid (PDF) to the collection has been developed.

The Fulton Street Trade Card Collection consists of 245 late 19th and early 20th century illustrated trade cards, all emanating from businesses in Brooklyn's historic commercial thoroughfare. The cards combine humor, bright and elegant graphic design and typography to promote a wide variety of wares and services. The Fulton Street trade cards are among the many collections held by the Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library's local history division, and the world's largest public archive for the study of Brooklyn's social and cultural history. Brooklyn Public Library provides online access to Brooklyn's historic newspaper of record, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841-1902. Brooklyn's daily newspaper ran for 114 years, from 1841 to 1955. Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes, the newspaper printed local, national and international news, keeping offices in Washington, London and Paris. Many Fulton Street Trade Cards have links to related articles in the online repository.